AFRICAN AMERICANS/MEDIA/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “During a rant on Friday [11-9-18] about CNN reporter Jim Acosta, President Donald Trump turned to another reporter, April Ryan. ‘You talk about somebody that’s a loser,’ Trump said of Ryan, a White House correspondent for American Urban Radio Networks who is African American. ‘She doesn’t know what the hell she’s doing.’ During the gaggle in front of the White House, Trump continued to criticize reporters and went after another reporter of color…Journalists, media groups and academics immediately started speaking up, saying the remarks revealed a bifurcated approach between how the president treats white reporters and those who are women or people of color, including PBS NewsHour White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor, with whom he also quarrelled this week. While the president insults many journalists, these critics say his barbs targeting women and people of color feel especially sharp, and hit at the reporter’s basic intelligence and competence as a person. It’s a tone that black reporters and scholars of African-American history say particularly stings, given that African-Americans journalists were not allowed into the White House until 1947 — and that the White House press corps remains overwhelmingly white to this day.”
–Rebecca Morin, “Trump draws rebukes for scolding female reporters of color,” Politico, November 9, 2018 7:12 pm