Steve Boriss, an astute observer of the media in transformation, thinks the mainstream media’s “monolithic views” on race have kept America from becoming the color-blind society that the Rev. Martin Luther King envisioned:

I suspect that after the New Media has replaced the Old Media, we will look back and conclude that the economic inequality between blacks and whites really was largely caused by racism all along — the kind that the mainstream media induces.

For decades, they have been sending the message to the black community that they could not succeed on their own. When they stop getting that message, perhaps society will move closer to the colorblindness dreamed of by Martin Luther King, Jr.

Many people in Durham need to read the whole thing.

UPDATE: Even more media mayhem today. Bryan at HotAir.com links to this research by Virginia Tech’s Jim A. Kuypers, an assistant professor whose expertise is political communication, which finds incredible media bias in the coverage of President Bush’s pronouncements regarding the war on terror:

This goes beyond reporting alternate points of view. “In short,” Kupyers explained, “if someone were relying only on the mainstream media for information, they would have no idea what the president actually said. It was as if the press were reporting on a different speech.”

These research findings are not new. They came out in 2006. The lack of news coverage on this research pretty much confirms the author’s finding that the mainstream news media is an “anti-democratic institution.”