Anyone ever even heard of TV One before this?

It is easy to buy small plaster models of what you think life is like.

Meh...I can't get worked up about this.  Is TVOne unfair and unbalanced?  Probably.  At least they're not making any claims to the opposite...nor are they hiding the fact why they're not covering the Republican convention.  Meanwhile, Fox news will continue to denigrate the democrats while pumping up the new "Commander and Chief".  They'll be tossing out terrorist fist jabs all the while they report and we decide.

It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine

If TV One's "only Obama" coverage isn't racist, it's awfully damn close. They're focusing on their candidate of choice because of skin color alone, and despite claims to the contrary, the presidential race is a sideshow in comparison to the actual "most important story of the century" to African Americans.

Win or lose, the importance of Obama's campaign is a capstone to the racial-based policies started in the Civil Rights movement. It shows that America has progressed to the point where skin color has become an irrelevant hurdle in the process of achieving the highest office in the land. (Note: process, not politics. Individuals or classes of voters will or won't support a black candidate for a variety of reasons, some of them racially-based; but dark skin is not of itself a disqualifier the way it would have been decades ago.)

The actual most important story of the century is the debate over whether race-based preferences should continue or be done away with. Most of that story will be played out at the local or state level, but the opinions of both presidential candidates on the subject would be very interesting to hear. The failure of TV One to investigate that issue, and the insistence upon ignoring one candidate entirely, speaks volumes about how TV One management sees the issue -- and it doesn't cast a complimentary light on TV One.

On one hand they are a private entity and allowed to do as they wish with their station's broadcast time.

On the other hand, I wonder if they thought the PR of this through. Are they really suggesting that all their viewing audience cares about is the skin color of the speaker? If I was Obama I am not sure I would want to be associated with that type of support. I would want people behind me because they believed in my platform and ideas for the country, not because of my outward appearance.

     From what I can tell, even though the network has a little financial backing, it doesn't seem as if it has the revenue to cover anything but a slam bang viewing event: the schedule I saw on the site is a definitely low budget collection of syndicated shows that weren't exactly big news when they were new. The big question Rodgers might get from shareholders will likely be why he's spending money covering an already well televised event, and not so much why the Republicans didn't get equal coverage. Will TV One get more advertising as a result? Is Rodgers angling for some bad publicity, just to get any publicity at all? (TV One looks as if it has a noticeable presence in around fifteen states, and isn't even broadcast in around six or seven.) At first glance, this looks a lot more like a calculated gamble than any indication of deep seated racism . . though doubtless I don't own the special glasses that let me catch all the bias in this instance.
   

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