Yet at the same time they are fascinated with them. They love to see them sing, dance, run with the ball, jam the ball, throw the ball and hit the ball. In a deeply sexist America, the game is still about white male ego, power and control. Black men are perceived as threats to all, unless they're servile or entertaining. The news media bear some responsibility for creating and perpetuating stereotypes of black men.
Editors often deny that they distort the news.
But news is filtered through journalists and editors. The men and women who are in control in the newsrooms are hardly neutral or objective people who just report the news. Their tastes, preferences, personal beliefs, values, class, money, status and prejudices bear directly on what they consider news and how they cover it. This is not to say that the media have changed their biased ways. People in the media were simply getting tired of people like Dr. Earl Ofari Hutchinson, noted political analyst and media critic, and others calling news coverage racist and insensitive.