{"id":4129,"date":"2008-01-28T21:48:53","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T05:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/01\/28\/cnn-readers-give-cnn-well-deserved-rasberry\/"},"modified":"2008-01-28T21:48:53","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T05:08:41","slug":"cnn-readers-give-cnn-well-deserved-rasberry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4129","title":{"rendered":"CNN Readers Give CNN Well-Deserved Rasberry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/POLITICS\/01\/21\/emails.race.gender\/index.html\">CNN&#8217;s website<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Within minutes of posting a story on CNN&#8217;s homepage called &#8220;Gender or race: Black women voters face tough choices in South Carolina,&#8221; readers reacted quickly and angrily. [&#8230;] Many took umbrage at the story&#8217;s suggestion that black women voters face &#8220;a unique, and most unexpected dilemma&#8221; about voting their race or their gender.<\/p>\n<p>CNN received dozens of e-mails shortly after posting the story, which focuses largely on conversations about Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama that a CNN reporter observed at a hair salon in South Carolina whose customers are predominantly African-American. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>An e-mailer named Tiffany responded sarcastically: &#8220;Duh, I&#8217;m a black woman and here I am at the voting booth. Duh, since I&#8217;m illiterate I&#8217;ll pull down the lever for someone. Hm&#8230; Well, he black so I may vote for him&#8230; oh wait she a woman I may vote for her&#8230; What Ise gon&#8217; do? Oh lordy!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Another CNN reader pointed out that (since the media has written off John Edwards) white men also are, by CNN&#8217;s standards, choosing between voting their sex or voting their race. Yet, mysteriously, CNN isn&#8217;t writing stories about that.<\/p>\n<p>(Curtsy: <a href=\"http:\/\/dsadevil.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/so-many-white-boys.html\">The Debate Link<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From CNN&#8217;s website: Within minutes of posting a story on CNN&#8217;s homepage called &#8220;Gender or race: Black women voters face tough choices in South Carolina,&#8221; readers reacted quickly and angrily. [&#8230;] Many took umbrage at the story&#8217;s suggestion that black &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4129\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,31,54,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-and-politics","category-feminism-sexism-etc","category-media-criticism","category-race-racism-and-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}