WNYC reporter Arun Venugopal posts his round-up on the South Asian Journalists Association Forum site: A February 23 column in AsianWeek by Kenneth Eng has created a huge uproar among Asian-American community leaders, politicians such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Asian American Journalists Association. The column, “Why I Hate Blacks,” is not nearlyContinueContinue reading “South Asian Journalists forum blog”
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USA Today Blog: ‘San Francisco roiled by Asian columnist’s diatribe against blacks’
Michael Winter posts a round-up of developments related to the AsianWeek fiasco. Just around the time he posted the entry, the Chronicle’s Leslie Fulbright posted a story that Eng had been in fact fired.
Bay City News Service: ‘Fang refused to clarify whether an editor reviewed the column and allowed it to go to press’
From a Feb. 28 report by Tamara Barak of Bay City News Service: AsianWeek Editor-at-Large Ted Fang today said the columnist who penned the piece “Why I Hate Black People” last week will not contribute to the free paper’s content again. … Fang refused to clarify whether an editor reviewed the column and allowed itContinueContinue reading “Bay City News Service: ‘Fang refused to clarify whether an editor reviewed the column and allowed it to go to press’”