With this latest controversy, I think we can throw in political fund raising, too. But In the reporting of such incidents this reflection also mirrors a sense of Asians as the outsiders, coming into a set universe, disrupting community identity. They are more likely to be mentioned in the news, when the context is of majority interest. The stories of Asian Americans as reflected in mainstream newspapers clash against a spectrum of cultural stereotypes. Journalists are the writers of the first drafts of history, wrote Phil Graham.
Newspapers provide a documentation of the Asian presence in the United States.
Today that documentation derives primarily from voices echoing the focus and concerns of the majority, rather than from Asian-American communities. Lee is currently Director of the Journalism Program at Queens College, of the City University of New York. She was also assistant professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. Lee was born in Hong Kong and immigrated to the United States with her family as a child. She grew up in New York City's Chinatown on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.