Eric Deggans: Pew Center is reassessing a phrase it used in reporting poll results showing many Black people believe news media is designed to hold them back. Pew used term "racial conspiracy theories," but that implies they are not true, when history shows otherwise. loom.ly/z_QX79I

Pew Center is reassessing a phrase it used in reporting poll results showing many Black people believe news media is designed to hold them back. Pew used term "racial conspiracy theories," but that implies they are not true, when history shows otherwise. loom.ly/z_QX79I

5. Black Americans and racial conspiracy theories about the news medialoom.ly About half of Black Americans say the news media was designed to hold Black people back a great deal or a fair amount.

Which is why we need to drop "conspiracy theories" as a descriptor. They're either actual conspiracies (Tuskegee, Watergate) or they are conspiracy *fictions* (Qanon, Pizzagate).

The racist media dips into racism to impugn Black people who acknowledge the racism of the media.

Wonder if there's a distinction between thinking there's an actual plot, or thinking that bias feeds a comforting American narrative.

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