Karlos on Counterspin: Media coverage of Gentrification & Displacement in the Bay Area

marjorie says...

Check it out: m-pyre friend Karlos Schmieder discusses media coverage of gentrification and displacement in the Bay Area tomorrow morning on the radio:

Counterspin
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
8:30am-9am on KUNM

If you miss the show, follow the links here to listen online. Counterspin, of course, is the fabulous radio show of FAIR, also known as Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting.

Karlos was SWOP's communications guru before leaving us for the Bay Area, where he is now at the Youth Media Council. The YMC just released a media analysis called Displacing the Dream. From their website, they describe the report thusly:


"As of 2006, Oakland and San Francisco had each lost 20-25% of their African American populations. Displacing the Dream exposes the failure of Bay Area newspapers to adequately cover the crisis of gentrification and displacement facing the Bay Area today.

"What did newspaper coverage of housing and development include? Whose voices were heard and whose got left out? What does it all mean?"


I'm really looking forward to reading this report (something tells me my arguments just got bolstered). In the meantime, Karlos breaks it down nicely on the show...be sure to check it out.