I will survive


So, a student asked, learning forward to ask a tough question, how is the ethnic media going to survive?

Everyone else is collapsing, he said.

Hmmph. Quiet. Tough to answer.

And then Lou Ransom, executive editor of the 104-year-old Chicago Defender, explained how and why and it seemed so perfect and so true.

We will survive, he said, seated among the panel of editors and journalists at our job fair the other day for college students to learn about the ethnic news media, because we have always survived.

We will survive, he said, because we have always had to do more with less, because surviving was the only choice and because we learned how to survive long ago.

And now, he said, while others are bankrupt and suffering because they’ve come down from the mountain of good times, the ethnic news media will survive because it never had that much to go on and so it is not scared of tough times.

Amen,

And in case you need some survival theme music, here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBR2G-iI3-I&feature=fvw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xui7x_KF7bY&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8PUSg5SL7s&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvsI3jc4pPA&feature=related

and this is my favorite -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdcZvnSjFIk&feature=related



Written by on October 29, 2009

Filed Under: ETHNIC MEDIA



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