*Former Essence magazine editor Angela Burt-Murray, who was point person for the Huffington Post’s new project targeting African Americans, has left the project, Derek J. Murphy, chief operating officer of the venture, told Journal-isms on Thursday.
“I’m currently managing staff recruiting and site development with our partnership team. Angela Burt Murray is no longer part of these efforts or this partnership,” Murphy told the website via e-mail.
Before the GlobalBlack project, Murphy was Huffington Post’s senior vice president, business development, joining the organization in 2009 from CNN, where he headed strategic partnerships for the CNN Interactive Group, forging alliances with companies that included Google, CareerBuilder and LG Electronics.
Burt-Murray left Essence magazine in November after editing it for five years and surfaced at the Huffington Post project in January. She did not respond to a request for comment and Murphy did not explain Burt-Murray’s departure.
The GlobalBlack concept was developed with Sheila Johnson, co-founder of Black Entertainment Television. It has its detractors.
Columnist Ruben Navarrette of the Washington Post Writers Group wrote last week:
“Arianna Huffington, the website’s co-founder and editor-in-chief, has described the goal of this enterprise as simply ‘to cover more stories of importance to the black community.’
“There’s the hitch. Shouldn’t this be the goal of every media company in the country? If you want to cover the United States, then you should cover it in all its color and complexity. Otherwise, your product — newspaper, magazine, website, radio or television network, etc. — will soon become outdated and irrelevant.
“Besides, the ‘black community’ is an inseparable part of the American community. . . .”
EUR…….when you guys say she’s out that looks like she was fired, but in the article it says she left. Are you guys trying to be messy? What kind of headline is that?
I think the EUR is just keeping it real. Nowadays, they don’t come out and say someone was fired. It’s usually done in a more slick manner. They would have a meeting and lay it out to you that you can either quit or be replaced (fired).
Sometimes, it’s not even as simple as that. Take Keith Olbermann. He saw what was coming, and bounced. Maybe it’s the same here with Angela.
But you not going to join an organization in January and leave the following month if everything was okey-dokey.
That’s not keeping it real. Keeping it real would be reporting what you know,not trying to sensationalize the sbuject.
EUR is on some Media Fakeout type sh!t.
EUR said: “There’s the hitch. Shouldn’t this be the goal of every media company in the country?” Welll yeahh… one would think, but that has definitely not be the case. Mainstream media does not see certain events that happen within the African American community as news until there’s great scandal and/or a celebrity/athlete or well known political figure is involved. I don’t have a problem with what Arianna is doing.
The whole thing is kind of confusing due to some bad editing by the EUR. But I think all that was quoted text by Columnist Ruben Navarrette of the Washington Post Writers Group.
Now that’s the hitch, listening to bigots like this who always want to complain when blacks are singled out for say separate news coverage. But the same crackas never have anything to say when blacks are singled out for incarceration, housing discrimination, lay off, or the other hosts of discriminatory practices which we have to endure.
But then again, Obama attitude towards us is not that different, either.
He claims that it is against the law to have any targeted assistance for groups such as blacks which suffer from say disproportionately higher rates of unemployment.
Mainstream media will never give you the whole truth, just half truths. The lawyers comes in and seal up all the loose ends. Give a person everything they want, and they will still complain and beg for their worth. Anything you sown to the fresh, will disappear. Rich people weary in well doing, the poor are blessed into humility. Jews run everything, and pray to Mary and the Pope. America is full of every religion, and Christ is last. The last shall be first. Remember the church calls it self first.
All I know is she really SUCKED the big one as Editor in Chief of Essence. They needed to bring back Susan Taylor in the worse way…