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<p> <style type="text/css"> P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A.sdendnoteanc { font-size: 57%; }</style> </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; widows: 2; orphans: 2">[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"drupalimc_large","fid":"11712","attributes":{"alt":"","class":"media-image","typeof":"foaf:Image"}}]]</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; widows: 2; orphans: 2"><font color="#000000">At 3:23 in this video interview [above] of Seattle running back Marshawn Lynch’s infamous pre-Superbowl press conference he has a “shout-out to Westbrook.” Russell Westbrook is the other mega sports star who began sabotaging the press with non-interviews. In the January 17th, post-game interview [below] Westbrook answers every question posed to him with “we did a good job of executing.” After a half dozen of those, Berry Tramel - a sports columnist for an Oklahoma newspaper finally asks, “Are you upset with somethin’?” Westbrook pauses a second, stares right at Tramel and says, “I just don’t like you.”</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; widows: 2; orphans: 2">[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"drupalimc_large","fid":"11713","attributes":{"alt":"","class":"media-image","typeof":"foaf:Image"}}]]</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; widows: 2; orphans: 2"><font color="#000000">The more telling shout-out from Lynch comes at 3:42 of the video where he says “shout out to my real Africans out there.” On two different occasions during that interview he acknowledged the black members of the press with “what’s up my African.” Just in case that exchange didn’t spell it out for the ruling sport reporting caste, Lynch and Westbrook have a problem with you. </font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; widows: 2; orphans: 2"><font color="#000000">That problem is the “1.3 percent doctrine” a term coined by Scoop Jackson - a sports writer for ESPN who just so happens to be black. He references <a href="http://www.tidesport.org/RGRC/2006/2006_Racial_Gender_Report_Card_AP_Sports_Editors.pdf">a 2006 study conducted by</a> the Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE) and the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports at the University of Central Florida. The study found the number of black sports editors at APSE newspapers in America to be four out of 305, which equates to 1.3 percent. </font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; widows: 2; orphans: 2"><font color="#000000"><!--break--></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; widows: 2; orphans: 2"><font color="#000000">According to the 2006 study, <span style="background: #ffffff">whites accounted for 94 percent of sports editors, 89 percent of assistant sports editors, 88 percent of columnists, 87 percent of reporters and 89 percent of copy editors.</span> <font color="#00000a"><a href="http://www.tidesport.org/RGRC/2012/2012_APSE_RGRC.pdf">Six years after</a> Scoop wrote the piece black reporters have made major inroads with whites accounting for slightly less percentages across the board: 90.9 percent of the sports editors, 86.6 percent of the assistant sports editors, 83.9 percent of columnists, 86.3 percent of reporters and 86 percent of copy editors/designers were white.</font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; widows: 2; orphans: 2"><font color="#000000">Jackson wrote that the 1.3 percent is typical of top management rates in any other Fortune 5000 business. But when this happens in an industry where black players – 85 percent in the NBA and 68 percent in the NFL, dominate two out of the four major sports, that 1.3 percent figure for sports editors can’t be explained by anything other than racism. </font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; widows: 2; orphans: 2"><font color="#000000">Either that or athleticism is not a qualifier for being able to write about athletics just as writing about sports does not make you athletic. This later point is certainly true given the number of flabby local sports writers we have in Rochester. But there is very little proof for the former statement given what passes as sports reporting could have easily been written by a high school intern, save some investigative sports reporting by the D&C’s Brian Sharp.</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; widows: 2; orphans: 2"><font color="#000000">Rochester’s sportscaster scene is even more pitiful than the national average when it comes to diversity. From the major local news TV and print networks only one of 20 sports journalists is black. Jay Johnson, sportswriter for the <i>Democrat and Chronicle</i> luckily saved Rochester from a complete shutout. The rest of the sportscasters are all white males, which asks another question: do women not play sports in Rochester? Or do they report <i>like a girl? </i>In the hometown of Abby Wambach and John Wallace, the combined total for women and people of color in the sports journalism industry is 5% compared to the 2012 APSE national average of 16.8%. </font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; widows: 2; orphans: 2"><font color="#000000">The historically low percentages of black sports reporters could explain Lynch’s cutting off conversation with those in the sports caste system, other than some shoutouts to his “real Africans” that infiltrated the club. While these diversity numbers are improving across the nation, you wouldn’t be able to tell by looking at Rochester’s sports press club. One can only imagine what Lynch would have to “not say” to these guys if he was still playing for our local team.</font></p><p><strong>Related:</strong> <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/101620">When it comes to media consolidation, the "shifting of voices" ploy fails miserably</a> | <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/7343">Racism and the Media Community Discussion a Success</a> | <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/6867">AARM Holds Second Event on the Media and Racism</a> | <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/6794">Declaration of Peace Challenges Local Media to Report on Winter Soldier</a> | <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/6884">Oppression Continues in the Courtroom and in Media Coverage: a report back from Tyquan Rivera's pretrial hearing</a> | <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/101061">The 2013 P.U.-Litzers, Media Moments That Didn't Smell Right</a> | <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/5314">SDS Calls Press Conference to Address Police Brutality and Media Misrepresentation</a> | <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/101206">Islamophobia: The New Racism</a></p><p><strong>[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"drupalimc_large","fid":"11716","attributes":{"alt":"","class":"media-image","typeof":"foaf:Image"}}]]</strong></p>
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In the January 17th, post-game interview [below] Westbrook answers every question posed to him with “we did a good job of executing.” After a half dozen of those, Berry Tramel - a sports columnist for an Oklahoma newspaper finally asks, “Are you upset with somethin’?” Westbrook pauses a second, stares right at Tramel and says, “I just don’t like you.”</font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; widows: 2; orphans: 2"><div class="media media-element-container media-drupalimc_large"><div id="file-11713" class="file file-video file-video-youtube"> <h2 class="element-invisible"><a href="/file/11713">Westbrook to Berry Tramel - "I just don't like you"</a></h2> <div class="content"> <div class="media-youtube-video media-image media-youtube-2"> <iframe class="media-youtube-player" width="620" height="480" title="Westbrook to Berry Tramel - "I just don't like you"" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nawEqAz-8-s?wmode=opaque&controls=" name="Westbrook to Berry Tramel - "I just don't like you"" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>Video of Westbrook to Berry Tramel - &quot;I just don&#039;t like you&quot;</iframe> </div> </div> </div> </div></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; widows: 2; orphans: 2"><font color="#000000">The more telling shout-out from Lynch comes at 3:42 of the video where he says “shout out to my real Africans out there.” On two different occasions during that interview he acknowledged the black members of the press with “what’s up my African.” Just in case that exchange didn’t spell it out for the ruling sport reporting caste, Lynch and Westbrook have a problem with you. </font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; widows: 2; orphans: 2"><font color="#000000">That problem is the “1.3 percent doctrine” a term coined by Scoop Jackson - a sports writer for ESPN who just so happens to be black. He references <a href="http://www.tidesport.org/RGRC/2006/2006_Racial_Gender_Report_Card_AP_Sports_Editors.pdf">a 2006 study conducted by</a> the Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE) and the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports at the University of Central Florida. 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But when this happens in an industry where black players – 85 percent in the NBA and 68 percent in the NFL, dominate two out of the four major sports, that 1.3 percent figure for sports editors can’t be explained by anything other than racism. </font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; widows: 2; orphans: 2"><font color="#000000">Either that or athleticism is not a qualifier for being able to write about athletics just as writing about sports does not make you athletic. This later point is certainly true given the number of flabby local sports writers we have in Rochester. But there is very little proof for the former statement given what passes as sports reporting could have easily been written by a high school intern, save some investigative sports reporting by the D&C’s Brian Sharp.</font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; widows: 2; orphans: 2"><font color="#000000">Rochester’s sportscaster scene is even more pitiful than the national average when it comes to diversity. From the major local news TV and print networks only one of 20 sports journalists is black. Jay Johnson, sportswriter for the <i>Democrat and Chronicle</i> luckily saved Rochester from a complete shutout. The rest of the sportscasters are all white males, which asks another question: do women not play sports in Rochester? Or do they report <i>like a girl? </i>In the hometown of Abby Wambach and John Wallace, the combined total for women and people of color in the sports journalism industry is 5% compared to the 2012 APSE national average of 16.8%. </font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; widows: 2; orphans: 2"><font color="#000000">The historically low percentages of black sports reporters could explain Lynch’s cutting off conversation with those in the sports caste system, other than some shoutouts to his “real Africans” that infiltrated the club. While these diversity numbers are improving across the nation, you wouldn’t be able to tell by looking at Rochester’s sports press club. One can only imagine what Lynch would have to “not say” to these guys if he was still playing for our local team.</font></p> <p><strong>Related:</strong> <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/101620">When it comes to media consolidation, the "shifting of voices" ploy fails miserably</a> | <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/7343">Racism and the Media Community Discussion a Success</a> | <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/6867">AARM Holds Second Event on the Media and Racism</a> | <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/6794">Declaration of Peace Challenges Local Media to Report on Winter Soldier</a> | <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/6884">Oppression Continues in the Courtroom and in Media Coverage: a report back from Tyquan Rivera's pretrial hearing</a> | <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/101061">The 2013 P.U.-Litzers, Media Moments That Didn't Smell Right</a> | <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/5314">SDS Calls Press Conference to Address Police Brutality and Media Misrepresentation</a> | <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/101206">Islamophobia: The New Racism</a></p> <p><strong><div class="media media-element-container media-drupalimc_large"><div id="file-11716" class="file file-image file-image-jpeg"> <h2 class="element-invisible"><a href="/file/11716">whitereportersflat.jpg</a></h2> <div class="content"> <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/sites/default/files/whitereportersflat_1.jpg?width=500&height=500" class="colorbox-load" alt=""><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://rochester.indymedia.org/sites/default/files/styles/drupalimc_large/public/whitereportersflat_1.jpg?itok=jS3zOwnL" alt="" title="" /></a> </div> </div> </div></strong></p>
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