The State Of Black Media

I remember when black media was only in certain magazines, Ebony, Jet and Essence. When they spoke of us on the news it usually wasn’t anything good being said about us. Now flash-forward to the new age, the Internet has taken over and it has hit with a vengeance. I was disappointed to be apart of the black media last week so I took some days off to reevaluate my position and what’s really best for me. I was unsure if I wanted to continue to be apart of something that’s built to tear people down like black media does. Of course we have good days when we talk about something great Beyonce done or the president. However what about the days when we make ourselves look bad, like a bunch of idiots that doesn’t know the first rule of journalism. How do we defend a big mistake that makes us look like a bunch of amutars? Blogging is a form of journalism rather we like it or not. Once you post something to this Internet it stays on here, so how can we as bloggers not take that serious?  I have not been perfect myself so I am not pointing the fingers here, I learned after one of my post got linked to The Insider how real my words were. I called a woman a nasty bitch and I was ashamed of myself and couldn’t believe they linked my post on such a large website. Now the lady was willing spreading Aids and that’s what I felt once I got a hold of the story but it was not fair for me to disrespect her.

That showed me you never know who is watching and reading what you are writing, I grew up that day and started to be more careful of what I post. If I don’t care for a person I will not write about them period, I was raised not to be disrespectful and if you don’t have anything nice to say don’t say nothing at all.  Last week my colleagues posted a bogus story about Pleasure P and it angered me. Firstly where is the responsibility in blogging, I feel we all search around the net and pull other stories from other sites and repost it. However you have to be responsible for posting certain things on your site, you cannot rely on another person saying the researched it and it’s 100% right. You don’t know that person from Adams apple and you have to cover your own azz in life. I learned that from working the hell out of Coroprate America for 11 years before I started my own business. I was so ashamed that a person can plant such a vial story from behind a computer screen and black media posted it up without fact checking.

When it was only the magazines there was a process before stories got put up, it wasn’t that anybody could call them up with a rumor and it was posted. Things had to be verified, this would have never happened in the white media period. Sites like CNN, Yahoo, AOL, and MSN they will never just post something up. I know your saying their larger companies, but my point is how can any one of us become a large entity like them if we are around here posting up BS. How can we expect black media to get taken serious like MSN if we don’t do our homework before we run with a story?

I know white press have sites and even papers dedicated to garbage of course; but people who read those things know it’s all for shyts and giggles. They know if they don’t see it in People then don’t believe it, so yes it sells because the people who buy it knows not to take it serious. The difference is black media all run the same stories, all the same lies all the same BS so how can the readers know what’s real and what’s fake?  What site is going to be our People? What site do we have that only run the facts? I mean not to toot my own horn, but I don’t post that bs unless I know it’s 110% true but my site is little compared to those others sites. Those sites have 100 of thousands of readers daily and yet they don’t see the big deal with posting false stories. I will say Sandra Rose was a woman about it and admitted she was wrong and she will be more careful going forward. But how can you fix damage that was done to this young man? You will never see MSN doing something like this to John Mayer. If black media wants to be taken serious and make serious dollars like those other companies we have to do better.

I feel bad for Pleasure P and who are we to dig up someone past, something they did when they was 13? Have we all been so perfect that we have the balls to dig up things people did before they became an adult? My problem with some bloggers they want to sit behind their computers and write all the gossip about other people. But when it’s them being talked about they get mad and have a fit, you never hear or read any of them talk about there past. Can you go daily and read the mistakes they’ve made in life no~~they close it off. Well here you won’t read garbage, you can read my mistakes, my struggles and my growth because unlike others I feel it’s way more issues going on in our community outside of who Tiger Woods flucked.