HOLDING A NOT-SO-HOT HAND

Al Sharpton Criticizes White Media (Mike Glover, AP, 8/6/2003)

"I think when you look at the lack of diversity in the newsrooms, when you look at the lack of diversity from the editors and those in power, then you see them as automatically dismissive of anything that is not like them, which is white males," said Sharpton.

"I think we've seen some very blatant racial insensitivity in the coverage of this race so far," said Sharpton, in an interview with The Associated Press.

Sharpton complained that former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean has been virtually anointed the hot candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004 - a case, he said, of a white-dominated media focusing on a middle-age white man.

Sharpton already playing the race card. Surely the end is near. And it will be all my fault. Posted by John Resnick at August 7, 2003 12:00 AM