3 Journalists of Color Discuss an Ironic Aspect of #OscarsSoWhite

KPCC's Take Two chats with Eric Deggans, Alynda Wheat and Tre'vell Anderson.

It’s there, lurking in the hashtag background: #JournalismSoWhite. On today’s edition of L.A. public radio station KPCC’s weekday morning program Take Two, three entertainment journalists of color – NPR’s Eric Deggans, People magazine senior film writer Alynda Wheat and recent L.A. Times addition Tre’vell Anderson – addressed a situation that perhaps should have Spike Lee, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith whittling down their lists of favored media outlets.

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Here’s how Wheat described the “diversity deficit” at the top of today’s segment:

“I generally see very few [of us], unless I’m at a screening that is partiularly for an African-American film or something like that.

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