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Bloomberg Businessweek Racist Cover

When the Media Mocks Minorities, Bankers Win

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.04.2013 | Politics
Read More: Subprime Mortgages, Bloomberg Businessweek Racist Cover, Mortgage Crisis, Banks, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Housing Bubble, Businessweek, Businessweek Cover, Politics News
Richard (RJ) Eskow

Economic exploitation can't take place without dehumanization and caricature. It could be argued that the most racist thing about this cover is the culture of exploitation which Businessweek's editors, consciously or unconsciously, served so ably last week.

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Friday Talking Points -- When Universes Collide

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.01.2013 | Politics
Read More: President Obama, Sherrod Brown, Keith Ellison, War on Women, Bob Woodward, Racism, Bloomberg Businessweek Racist Cover, American People, JJ Abrams, Budget Cuts, Bruce Braley, Race Baiting, Barack Obama, Sequester, Boehner, Vawa, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Politics News
Chris Weigant

The big news in Washington "journalism" circles this week was not the side issue of "did Obama personally come up with the sequester idea?" but the side-side issue of "did Obama personally take Bob Woodward out to the woodshed and beat him mercilessly with a tire iron?" Or something like that...

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Jason Linkins

Bloomberg Businessweek Goes Racist-Chic For Housing Bubble Cover

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.28.2013 | Media
Read More: Eat the Press, Businessweek Housing Cover, Bloomberg Cover, Bloomberg Businessweek Cover, Trollgaze, Bloomberg Racist Cover, Bloomberg Businessweek Racist Cover, Businessweek Racist Cover, Media Criticism, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, How Did This Happen, Businessweek Cover, Housing Bubble, Media News

Now that Newsweek is out of print, there's a vacuum to be filled in the whole "trollgaze" cover game. Bloomberg Businessweek has apparently decided to...

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