BLAX News: The Root-Grio Asks: "Where Is The Black Press On Covering 'The Black Misery Index' In The Age Of Obama"?

Leonard Pitts:

Now, let us be fair and balanced here. Fox is owned by Murdoch and the last thing any news organization wants is to be in the awkward position of reporting on itself. To have to air that which might embarrass or damage colleagues or bosses is the definition of a no-win situation, especially since there will always be doubts, from within and without, about your ability to do so fairly. But when professionalism demands, this is what you do.

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Fox's failure to report -- and allow viewers to decide -- speaks volumes and offers definitive answer to the question of what Fox is.

It is the nation's leading manufacturer of false outrage and fake fury -- War on Christmas! War on Christmas! -- top supplier of bogeymen for those who need to feel terrorized in order to feel alive.

POT MEET STEAM LOCOMOTIVE

Note: When you see a report from BLAX News Network you should understand that this is review of the stories that the "LampBlacked Yellow Journalist Press" has spiked.  BLAX News lurks outside of their offices.  Instead of setting up a picket line we "dumpster dive" - bringing to you the stories that did not make it through their:

• Reporter's filter
• Editor's filter
• Publisher's filter
• Their CORPORATE OWNER'S filter

The Root.com - Leonard Pitts: Where's Fox News on Rupert Murdoch?

You have to understand the peculiar charge by first modeling the construct of Mr Pitts' indictment.
This one registers as an  "All White Jury - Mississippi 1949" level of audacity shown by Mr Pitts and The Root-Grio.

For the past 4 years "The Obama Fist Bump Black Press" has shifted from telling Black Americans how screwed up the economy is - due to Bush and the Republicans (and how the local favorable people have tried to work on behalf of our people despite the road blocks put into place ).  

Today when the "vital economic statistics" for Black America are at depression levels - they are now seen TALKING about the problems but proclaiming that the Present President's Progressive Policies are the fix to what ails Black America.   Thus when it comes to the debate over the debt ceiling and associated "social justice" program cuts the talking points from the Root-Grio is "the Republicans are trying to destroy the economic recovery".   Few of them are willing to look at their mission accomplished zones of Newark, Detroit and Chicago and make note that these policies have been blunt instruments upon the interests of Black America - when left all alone without a nutrition source to "redistribute" from.   Their real problem is that they failed to produce organic productivity from the institutions that they took over with the support of the Black rank & file.

So when I looked at a headline on TheRoot-Grio in which the coverage from FOXNEWS was being scrutinized as it relates to the COVERAGE OF SELF - I did not look at the transactional indictment that was at hand.  I decided to create yet another model.  I want to have the "Obama Fist Bump Black Press" to try this model on for size.

The Model Of Self Protection

1. There is an important figure which was instrumental in the erection of the entity upon which you reside
2. He ultimately used tactics that were agreeable to you - in that you are associated with the organization and you continue to use them
3. There is no evidence that you, the reporter, has initiated any reforms - thus we must conclude that these tactics are an indelible part of your own character
4. The organization comes under scrutiny for its conduct.  After years of claims about the behavior and certain points of evidence collected of the actions and the need for reform - a "camel back breaking event" occurs and the antics of the entity are exposed to the world
5. The governing body that ultimately must enforce the integrity of the organization that it has granted licence to - has ALSO been found complicit in their actions in support of the company's antics
6. The checks and balances system within the governance model forces those who are accused of having compromised their integrity to testify
7. The operatives directly involved with the scandal are fired so that they are separated from the greater whole
8. The cogs in the organization that were found to be corrupt were shut down from operation
9. The machinations of the governing body - will apply the longitudinal regulation to ensure that this level of comfort and corruption shall never happen again

In my quest to understand what makes the 'Black Community's Political Mind Work?" I am going to apply this model to the "Obama Fist Bump Black Press" - at a time when the INVESTMENTS that our people have made in "Hope And Change" - no - not from 2008 but from 1968 and before - need to be inspected for our "Return On Investment" but a (in my opinion) very corrupt middle-man messenger who should service as "Investment Advisers" to the entity that they CLAIM to be working in the best interests of - constantly prove themselves as "The Killer Of Sheep"

From the model above - let us do the work that The Root-Grio SHOULD be doing in protection of the investment assets of the Black community.

1. The individual who was instrumental in erecting the "Black Racial Services Machine" is not Commander In Chief Obama.   This prize goes to all of the organizations and associated leadership that "struggled" in the name of Black progress.  They chose to do so in the "American Political Domain" - where they were later subsumed by other forces
2. The tactics that are in question is the adopted methodology that they have put forth as the gateway through which Black Community Prosperity was to be had:  Progressive Advocacy in the name of "{Fill In The Blank} Justice".  
3. In as much as there was a planned architecture that was to be erected - the concerns that should have been trapped at the local level where they took over certain Black Community "Human Resource Development Institutions" should have been trapped, reformed and then made to prove their efficacy.  Instead the Black Press - the one agent that can act as a check upon all of the other cogs in the wheel chose to go along - as the marketers for the favorable forces and the attack dogs against the conservative enemy. 
4. When the machine came under scrutiny from the local press operations - the machine rebuffed the charges - often claiming RACISM(!!!) as the motivating factor.  "They are just disturbed at the idea of a Black man having power.  We must stick together so they don't split us apart"
1. The event that fomented the "broke back" of the Black Racial Services Machine was the Placement Of Commander In Chief Obama Into The Executive Branch and the resulting convergence of the "Obama Fist Bump Black Press" in their reaction and protections of this vehicle for their Progressive-Democratic Party interests
2. There has been observable infighting among Black Quasi-Socialist Progressive-Fundamentalist Racism Chasers.  
1. Some wanted to fold all of the traditional Black community organizations around the protection of the President - using "Black Power" as a shield against the obvious corruption of what their subjective and selective antics had exposed
1. Today we see operatives like Radio Host Tom Joyner and Bev Smith blatantly asking Black people to "Vote Our Race" (In truth they want us to Vote our PROGRESSIVISM - it is the number of us who are FOOLED that matters the most)
2. Others thought forward and saw that if they put aside the delivery of their "Permanent Interests" because they sought to protect their "Permanent Friend" that "After Obama" the credibility of the Black Progressive institutions would be shot with other presidents who don't share their skin color.  (Sorry Tavis and Cornel - the credibility was lost a long time ago as those of us who are watching see that the "Struggle Forward" is just a license to reach a certain plateau and STRUGGLE MORE - No earnest money being asked for along the way to "The Big Pay Back".
3. The "Straw That Broke The Camel's Back" is the data on Black American's interests that don't show "increase" but actual erosion.  In as much as these operative groups who see these numbers have CHANGE THEIR TALKING POINTS by which they have moved from indicting the INCUMBENTS over to outwardly seeking to shepherd their IDEOLOGY forward as the ultimate fix.  Their ideology, not the fix, was their agenda all along.  The serial news events that come across our desks on a daily basis and their resulting function as "Interpreters" on behalf of the congregation as the old lady is convulsing on the floor - relaying "God's words" to the masses is merely an opportunity for all who are interested to observe their FRAUD
1. BLACK UNEMPLOYMENT?  NOT the proof of unfulfilled promise of the Bayard Ruskin Plan - but evidence that "Republican Tax Cuts have failed".   (Note despite Chicago being a "high tax city" - they lost 180,000 Black people - thus showing that taxes are not the magical fix for what ails Black people)
2. BLACK CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATIONS THAT ARE NOT CALLED "CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATIONS" - With the "shutters removed from the US Justice Department Civil Rights Division" as Martin Luther King III told us on election night - it appears that the blinders remain on their eyes as to the competency for a Black man to commit an attack upon another Black and it be considered a "Civil Rights Violation" because the end results are the same as when a White man rendered the same assault
3. SUCCESSFUL RETIREMENT OF THE LABEL "NCLB" BUT FAILED SCHOOL REFORMS - with "Education as the great equalizer" - it seems that the Black community does not plan to be "equal" any time soon.   There was more cheerleading over "Race To The Top" than the benefit that it could ever possibly have delivered.  DELIVERY was not the point.  Favorable Marketing via the Black Press on behalf of Obama was
4. AFRICA IS BOMBED BY IMPERIALISTS AND AFRICAN COLONIZERS - I still have a report to file about my time spent with former congresswoman Cynthia McKinney where I learned that she first protested outside the offices of her former colleague Rep John Lewis for agreeing to fund the bombing of Libya  and then later the protesters were invited inside for refreshments as he explained the political game to them.  It appears that they took sufficient pictures of the protests outside and the Lewis staff did not want them to suffer from dehydration in the hot Georgia sun.
5. For the Black Community the "Governing Body" is the "Black Rank & File".   We only need to look at the quarterly statements of the Investment Portfolio to note that the rank & file is a substantial investor in the Black Racial Services Machine
6. The "Checks & Balances" system has been flipped upon its head.  It is the "Black Racial Services Machine" that has learned how to keep the Black Rank & File in check by convincing us that if they are made to lose power that our "racial enemies" will get back into power.   Then not only will the "Black Community Vital Statistics" be eroded as they are now.........................we'll also HATE those who are in power.  The coverage of them on MSNBC and Media Matters providing the only solace that a BQPFRC can turn to.
7. NO ONE EVER GETS FIRED FOR FAILING THE BLACK COMMUNITY AS LONG AS THEY REMAIN "PROGRESSIVE" - 
1. (I had to run to my basement to confirm before printing this) Progressives get released from service when they "Go Too Rightward")    Former Rep Albert Wynn (D-MD) was made into "Bush's Boy" for voting to authorize Bush's war actions after 9/11.        I just confirmed that his replacement Rep Donna Edwards (D-MD) voted to authorize Command In Chief Obama's bombing of the African nation of Libya.   She along with the balance of the Congressional Black Caucus has nothing to fear about their funding decisions.  In the Black community "popular sentiment" trumps consistency in one's "Moral Stance".   
2. In order to "Separate" the cancer from the whole body - those charged with removing the cancer would have to commit Seppuku 
   
8. There will be no shut down of a cog in the wheel that has proven to be corrupt or ineffective - this translates into less "feet on the street" in the longitudinal fight against the right-wing forces of Conservatism.  The notion of "They Can't Choose Our Black Leaders" is introduced as an internal rallying cry which puts forth the notion that "THEY were convicted by laws that are not our own.  As far as we are concerned - they are still in good standing"  (See the Atlanta Public Schools Cheating Scandal)
9. Again the Black Rank & File is the only force that can demand a RETURN ON INVESTMENT from its "Equal Black Ballots" and its "Fusion Of Black Community Development Interests" in with this machine and its joint venture partnership.   The Obama Fist Bump Black Press has nothing to worry about in regards to the squandered "Hope And Change" that was the case long before Obama came onto the scene and which continues during his term in office.   

With the tacit assumption that the Black community will always reside on the lower rungs of the the societal scale - the most powerful agenda item for the "Black Racial Services Machine" and their White Progressive Cheshire Fox joint-venture partners is to harvest some of these "Equal Black Ballots" into their cause.

They understand that our people are conditioned to keep a keen eye on what the "White Conservative Enemy" is doing to a greater extent than what those who's proximity allow them to pick our pockets of our community valuables are doing.

With the "MSNBC-ification Of The Black Community Development Struggle" the abstraction between the conditions on our street and our ideological loyalties will continue to grow - without the squandered investments being punished.

Keep up the good work Grio-Root (and Pitts, Robinson and Hutchinson) you are giving the people what they want.  Why upset them with the linkage between their grieving state and the usurpation of the resources that they hold?