Archive for March, 2007

Mar03

Mercury News’ Lisa Chung: ‘Blog-style column falls way short’

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In her column today, Mercury News columnist Lisa Chung shares her thoughts on the hate speech printed by AsianWeek: Even if you think newspapers are dead, this is what happens when an editor falls down on the job. And this is what happens when a callow young writer — or the Net-loving public at large [...]

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Mar02

New America Media forum on journalistic issues related to AsianWeek’s printing of hate speech

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Update Sat March 3: New America Media’s own coverage of their event, Sandip Roy’s commentary, and a Chronicle article. I just returned from attending this morning’s forum sponsored by New America Media in Chinatown. The event was billed as an opportunity for “ethnic media leaders [to] discuss the issue of journalistic responsibility in light of [...]

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Mar01

Come on down: New America Media Forum for Ethnic Media Discussion

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If you’re free tomorrow at 10 a.m., please join us at tomorrow’s media forum sponsored by New America Media. As NAM clarifies in their statement below, this is not the town hall style format that some of the media reported, but there will be a public audience. NAM accommodated our request to have only ethnic [...]

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Mar01

San Francisco Democratic Party condemns AsianWeek for printing hate speech

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Last night, the San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee passed a resolution condemning AsianWeek. The resolution was offered by Speaker Pelosi’s representative to the Committee and passed by voice vote. The resolution reads as follows: “WHEREAS the hateful views expressed in Kenneth Eng’s column published in the February 23rd edition of Asian Week must not [...]

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Mar01

Examiner: ‘Fang refused to comment on how Eng’s column made it past AsianWeek’s editors’

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From a March 1 article by Alexandria Rocha: On Wednesday, Fang refused to comment on how Eng’s column made it past AsianWeek’s editors and into the paper, repeatedly saying the editorial process will be reviewed. He would not comment on Eng’s previous two columns, “Why I Hate Asians” and “Why I Hate White People” either.

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Mar01

Asian American Advertising Federation – 3AF

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Responding to the recent furor over a racist column titled “Why I Hate Blacks” which appeared in the February 23 edition of the San Francisco publication AsianWeek, the multicultural advertising industry trade group – The Asian American Advertising Federation (3AF) – announced that it strongly, and unequivocally condemns the opinions of the column. Noting that [...]

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Mar01

racist writer’s publisher pulls his books

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I cannot verify the authenticity of this email, but it appears that Kenneth Eng’s publishers are disowning him. from: editors@dnapress.com date: Mar 1, 2007 6:18 AM subject: RE: (Kenneth Eng) Please stop the production of Racist Kenneth Eng’s products Dear all: We are absolutely stunned by the writing of Ken Eng. We will immediately pull [...]

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Mar01

Third Chronicle Article in a Row This Week

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Leslie Fulbright must be pretty tired about writing about the AsianWeek fiasco, but her third print article in a row will appear in Thursday’s edition of the Chronicle. “We think the editor responsible for green-lighting the column should be removed,” said Keith Kamisugi of the Equal Justice Society, one of the sponsors of a petition [...]

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