Artists Ignore Black and Brown Reporters on Grammys Red Carpet

Here is an interesting story from our friends over at UrbanHollywood411.com

The outlet did a story that journalists from black-owned media outlets often discuss behind closed doors, but not in the open.

When it comes to covering events like the Grammys, the black owned media is often relegated to the Siberia of red carpets and they are often ignored by stars.

Jamaal Finkley, founder of online entertainment outlet BlackTree TV, posted a video on YouTube of his experience last weekend on the Grammy Awards red carpet. in his nearly six-minute video “Black Media at the Grammys, The Struggle Is Real” The footage shows journalists of color from smaller, independent media outlets pleading for interviews as artists breeze past them.

In an interview, Finkley said he decided to speak out because he's fed up.

"How does black media survive when black talent disrespects our presence? By the time I was on this carpet watching Rick Ross purposely skip Ebony, AllHipHop and BlackTree, but stop at People and Vulture, I was done with it," he said. "I just told the cameraman to keep the camera rolling. If I can’t talk to them about financial empowerment and the state of the culture, then the story would be their disrespect of the media that built them up."

Read the full story here and his video is posted below:

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