USA TODAY ACCUSED OF RACIST SPIN OVER MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY REPORTAGE
January 25th 2008 20:36
USA Today is being hammered for its racist spin when it twice identified a white supremacist group that organised a small anti-civil rights rally on Martin Luther King Day only as a "white 'pro-majority' group."
The Nationalist Movement mustered about 30-50 people in Jena to protest both King Day and the 20,000-strong protest held in September in support of civil rights.
Other news organisations that reported on the Nationalist Movement's January 21 demonstration accurately identified the Nationalist Movement as a white supremacist group. An Associated Press Online article, published under the headline "White Supremacist Protest in Jena, La.," referred to the "white supremacist Nationalist Movement." Similarly, an NPR report referred to them as a "white supremacist group." The LA Times and the Chicago Tribune, meanwhile, referred to the group as "white separatists."
In the first Town Talk piece, the Nationalist Movement was said to "describe themselves as 'pro-majority' but are widely reported to be a white-supremacy organisation." The USA Today reprint omitted this reference to the group's racist orientation.
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