Lowered expectations.

If you want to see war coverage all the time. Or natural disaster information. Or national disaster information, CNN is your best bet. However, if you are trying to get an in-depth, balanced look at the African American experience, please tune in to PBS. Or to your local library. Maybe even MSNBC on a good day. (Meeting David Wilson, anyone?)

Seriously. You can’t go from mcnuggets to foie gras, not even (as with the case of CNN) in eighteen months. They meant well, but they are in the mcnugget business. Quick, simple news. If it bleeds, it leads. The issues of African Americans have highly complex roots and implications.