Winner of the National Press Club Prize for Media Criticism.
"A compelling look at the power of the media from an
award-winning journalist who fearlessly and passionately addresses
critical issues confronting African-American journalists working
for mainstream newspapers and magazines."
--"Essence"
"In her eloquent take on media Eurocentrism, Pamela Newkirk
observes that anti-African exclusion very much characterizes the
major media. . . . An hermeneutical tour-de-force."
--"New York Amsterdam News"
"Newkirk's account is well-grounded historically and
anecdotally, and she mangaes to be both fair and accurate at a time
when those values seem to have lost their luster in the
profession""Kirkus"
Companion website: http:
//www.nyupress.nyu.edu/authors/veil.html
Thirty years ago, the Kerner Commission Report made national
headlines by exposing the consistently biased coverage afforded
African Americans in the mainstream media. While the report acted
as a much ballyhooed wake-up call, the problems it identified have
stubbornly persisted, despite the infusion of black and other
racial minority journalists into the newsroom.
In Within the Veil, Pamela Newkirk unmasks the ways in which
race continues to influence reportage, both overtly and covertly.
Newkirk charts a series of race-related conflicts at news
organizations across the country, illustrating how African American
journalists have influenced and been denied influence to the
content, presentation, and very nature of news.
Through anecdotes culled from interviews with over 100 broadcast
and print journalists, Newkirk exposes the trials and triumphs of
African American journalists as they struggle in pursuitof more
equitable coverage of racial minorities. She illuminates the
agonizing dilemmas they face when writing stories critical of
blacks, stories which force them to choose between journalistic
integrity, their own advancement, and the almost certain enmity of
the black community.
Within the Veil is a gripping front-line report on the
continuing battle to integrate America's newsrooms and news
coverage.
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