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Its been a minute since my last rant. There have been so many things going on that I have kept quiet on but when I came home tonight and heard about Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa, the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, is investigating six prominent televangelist ministries for possible financial misconduct.
I found it very interesting that after turning to all three major stations nightly news, when they led into the story they only showed Creflo Dollar of World Changers International and Eddie Long of New Birth Ministries. I watch the coverage on CBS and they mention six prominent televangelist but never once mention who the other 4 were. I gave them the benefit of the doubt since both Dollar and Long head mega churches in Atlanta, but when I watch other channels and the only two named and shown, actually prominently featured in the piece were the 2 black televangelists.
I actually had to go online to CBSnews.com to find out the other four televangelist being targeted in this investigation. There names are Paula White, Joyce Meyer, Creflo Dollar, Eddie Long, Kenneth Copeland and Benny Hinn, all white.
ABC only show both Long and Dollar in their tease during primetime to get folks to watch.
Im not even defending Creflo Dollar and Eddie Long, I actually don't know all the facts, but they should be considered innocent into proven other wise. I'm just dealing with the uneven exposure of these two of six that are being targeted and the fact the both are black and the other four are not.
I just find it interested that the two black preachers are the ones prominently featured in the news coverage and the names of the white preachers were even mention on television. Yes their names are posted on the website, but by not mentioning them by name and showing them and their churches on television as was done with Long and Dollar, which is where the majority of the people will come in contact tonight with story.
What kind of message does this send to the public. When you have a lot of white people sitting home watching the news and you only cover the black televangelist.
Am I making too much of this, you be the judge. Was this the way it was in the rest of the country, please holla back!
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5 comments:
Interesting but not surprising....
Honestly I really don't see your point about black evangelists being seen by white folk on the news, the news has reported countless white ministers in the past, the consensus is "ALL ministers on TV are thieves" no biggie, I don't see any sort of conspiracy.
The really important story here is the "The prosperity gospel" which is a perversion of the real gospel, it's about giving and not getting, seeing ministers with hardly to no theological training living in 2 million dollar mansions driving 40-50 thousand dollar cars, jet planes etc... is absolutely rediculous and WRONG in the eyes of the Lord and unless they change their ways and truely repent they will answer to the Him, that's the Lord's money and it should be doing his work like helping Oprah build more schools in Africa etc....
This is nothing new with the so-called news. Keep up the good work brother AJ. Keep exposing the news that's backed by big business interest the fakes that they are. That's why we have good men like you with blogs giving true honest opinions.
Dk Jones
This is nothing new with the so-called news. Keep up the good work brother AJ. Keep exposing the news that's backed by big business interest the fakes that they are. That's why we have good men like you with blogs giving true honest opinions.
Dk Jones
You have really great taste on catch article titles, even when you are not interested in this topic you push to read it
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