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50. James D. Williams, “Blacks and Public TV,” 31.
51. “TV’s Black Journal Lacks Funds—May Close,” 4.
52. Ibid.
53. “Black TV: Its Problems and Promises,” 88.
54. Carol A. Morton, “For Black Viewers: Some Other Choices Besides
Off/On?” 49.
55. Brown continually used the press to challenge the media and their
assumptions about Black Journal. In 1972, an article entitled “Black
Journal Charges New York Times with Attempted Assassination” covered
Tony Brown’s response to critiques of a Journal episode entitled “Black
Paper on White Racism Part I.” New York Times writer John J. O’Connor
criticized the roundtable discussion involving John Henry Clarke, an associate
professor of African and Afro-American history at Hunter College in
New York; Preston Wilcox, head of the educational workshop of the Congress
of African People, and Reverend Albert Cleage, of the Shrine of the
Black Madonna, in Detroit, stating that the panelists presented “a blend of
facts, half truths, myths and legends” and suggesting that “if Black racism,
no less objectionable and absurd than any other form of racism, is offered
as ‘a tool in the struggle for dignity and pride’ the program also deserves to
be seriously questioned.” Brown stated that the New York Times’s critique
was “an attempt at political assassination of Black Journal.” “Black Journal
Charges New York Times with Attempted Assassination,” 44.
56. Peter Bailey, “Black Excellence in the Wasteland,” 47.
57. Williams, “Blacks and Public TV,” 32.
58. Ibid., 32.
59. Ibid., 32.
60. Jacob Wortham, “In with the Big Boys,” 15.
61. Richard K. Doan, “The Doan Report,” A-3.
62. “Tony Brown: Television’s Civil Rights Crusader,” 36.
63. George Hill, Ebony Images: Black Americans and Television, 67.
3. What You See Is What You Get
Notes to Chapter 3 203
1. The work of these black political organizations is discussed further
in chapter 5.
2. For more information on these shows, see Bogle, Prime Time Blues.
3. Todd Boyd, “A Trip down ‘Soul Train’s’ Memory Lane,” 1.
4. Quoted in Jones (aka Baraka), Blues People, xi.
5. See Nelson George, The Death of Rhythm and Blues, 42, for this and
the following quotations.
6. In his book Imagined Communities, Benedict Anderson suggests
that during the late eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries the consumption
of mass media (newspapers in particular) provided a link to other
members of the nation and could be considered a nation-forming device.