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Lead Editorial:
Where We Are
Everyday we see that there are too few Asian Americans in mainstream media. We know that by watching TV, listening to the radio and reading the newspaper. Sometimes the effects are subtle, and we are left thinking that API sources, the experts as well as the everyday guys, are simply non-existent. Other times, however, the lack of an Asian American sensibility hits us in the face.
Take The View, for example. The other day, Star Jones was describing a trip to a spa she took with colleague Meredith Vieira. Viera’s facial treatment, she said, stretched her face out too much and caused her eyes to get slanted. “Kind of like yours, Lisa,” she chuckled. That’s Lisa, as in Lisa Ling.
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Floss Talk:
Prom Memories. Youth columnist Raymond Li’s prom night got better in the morning.
Voices from the Community:
L.A. Election Is More than Black and White. David Bacon of the Pacific News Service sees the upcoming mayoral election as coalescing around new lines of politics and race.
Letters to the Editor:
Photo Doesn’t Define “Asian America”; Emil Is Keepin It Real; A Shared Pinoy Spirit; One Answer to Teen Smoking. |
