In the wake of NBC's and MSNBC's embarrassment over the firing of Don Imus for his racial insensitivity to black women on the Rutgers basketball team, NBC News promoted Lyne Pitts, a member of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), to be vice president of NBC News. Mrs. Pitts, the wife of CBS correspondent Byron Pitts, has ascended rapidly since she arrived to produce the Weekend Today programs in February 2006.
It's not hard to imagine this has a lot to do with assuaging the roiling internal rage over Imus that boiled over in that meeting NBC News President Steve Capus had with Al Roker and the gang before Imus was canned. Don't miss this sentence in her job description: "She also serves as the division's point person on diversity issues."
When Byron Pitts was chosen as 2002 Journalist of the Year by the National Association of Black Journalists, he said he met his wife at the 1997 NABJ convention in Chicago.
Mrs. Pitts worked as senior broadcast producer on the CBS Evening News from July of 2003 to some time in 2004, but her name doesn't seem to surface in connection with Dan Rather's implosion over the phony memos about President Bush's military service.
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Affirmative action at its BES
April 30, 2007 - 23:04 ET by mostlymoderateAffirmative action at its BEST! Was probably a "deal" from the very beginning to keep Sharpton et. al. happy. Oh well, I know why they call it N.B.C.
I wonder how it feels knowing
April 30, 2007 - 23:59 ET byI wonder how it feels knowing that you get a job for the color of your skin being black. Hey, I am all for private business hiring and firing people at will, and for whatever reason they wish to. But, I personally would not want a job that was given to me over another person, just because of my skin color. I want it for my abilities and would not like something playing that down.
All I have to say for us white folks is....
We shall over come!
Debra...
And I would like to start a NAWJ
May 1, 2007 - 01:36 ET by Peter LV
BE HONEST. Is anyone real
May 1, 2007 - 01:39 ET by Peter LVBE HONEST. Is anyone really surprised???
Exactly what does a "p
May 1, 2007 - 03:28 ET by motherbeltExactly what does a "point person on diversity issues" mean??? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller??
That's kinda like asking ex
May 1, 2007 - 03:44 ET by sarcasmoThat's kinda like asking exactly what "sinecure" means, IMO.
JMR
I like the idea of Rush, buy
May 1, 2007 - 07:29 ET by USA4freedomI like the idea of Rush, buy diversity insurance. Just pay Jesse and Al the money up front (a bit like the mafia, except they wont burn your place down); oh I forgot about Freddy’s fashion mart. Never the less, you get your payout out of the way, then..no problem. Coca-Cola was induced to award a lucrative distributorship to Jackson's half-brother, Noah, in order to protect itself from racially based attacks by Jackson (Noah is currently serving a life sentence in prison for arranging the contract murder of three business associates) (that doesn’t make him a bad guy, just another unfair judgment by da white judge); Anheuser-Busch awarded a beer distributorship to Jackson's sons, Yusef and Jonathan. A good reason never to drink Bud again. See how easy it is??
The part that is so disappointing is that blacks don’t seem to mind that they are being used for the money and power grabbing of these two.
These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc.
Ronald Reagn- 40th Anniversary of D-Day
In another beverage company w
May 1, 2007 - 08:33 ET by Gat New YorkIn another beverage company we had a Black group that was a refuge for Blacks who had substandard performance and went they made sure these people would not lose their jobs and even got promotions. Unfortunately it hurt the reputations of Blacks who performed extremely well.
Jackson is a leach on the African American community and needs to be exposed for what he is and has done.
IMUS AND THE NAWJ
May 1, 2007 - 07:52 ET by m_zeplinPLEASE! Why is it that for some people being just an American is never good enough. They have to be blue Americans, green Americans, brown haired Americans, honky, flat assed, whitey, cracker, yankee Americans. What is the need for these labels. What is wrong with you bigots?
I can answer that. Since I am the sitting President of the of pink dog democrats, male lesbian, green haired Congressional Caucus, woe is me. give me your tax dollars (since we are a minority) so we can intimidate any person, group, or corporation to give us what we want or prepared to be boycotted, picketed, or otherwise made miseralble, National Association of America I can relate. So now if you disagree with us on our position on anything, right or wrong, you are the bigot.
Affirmative Action
May 1, 2007 - 08:17 ET by iveseenitallAffirmative Action in action. Replace whites with blacks--bigotry in action. This has been happening in public and private institutions throughout America for years. Whites have become the victims of racial prejudice in the name of "social justice". Justice for whom? Certainly not for hard-working, intelligent white European males. And don't think for a minute that this woman cares that she was chosen simply for the color of her skin. To her and all liberals, two wrongs make a right. Sickening!
NEVER, NEVER trust a liberal
iveseenitall, have you noti
May 1, 2007 - 08:27 ET by motherbeltiveseenitall, have you noticed that it is almost always the oh-so-sensitive liberals who claim that color or ethnicity doesn't matter, but they always point that out first?
Mrs. Pitts may find, down the road, that "point person on diversity issues" simply means she is the one they trot out whenever those issues arise, to show how "diverse" they are.
Right on
May 1, 2007 - 08:49 ET by iveseenitallRight on, Motherbelt. Diverse and Divide, very similar words. "Diversity issuses" are those that divide us, not those that bring us together. The diversity canard is a successfully perpetrated hoax which covers the bigotry which has placed so-called "minorities" above anyone else in hiring, college admissions, etc. There was a time we celebrated our "unity", not our "diversity". BTW, the World Bank leader, Paul W.,a white guy, is going through hell right now because he used his influence to get his girfriend a higher-paying job. Ms. Pitts is this guy's wife. Will you hear cries of nepotism from the media? No way. It's only wrong if you're white. If Kofi Annan (sp?) had been white he'd be behind bars right now, not sitting on a beach somewhere with his ill-gotten U.N. millions. Social Justice? What a laugh.
NEVER,NEVER trust a liberal
What a suprise... another ste
May 1, 2007 - 11:50 ET by EvokeWhat a suprise... another step backwards brought forth by 'white' liberals and 'black' victocrats. I wanna puke.
"Just like slavery, affirmative action allows blacks to be used, and bestows on us a stigma of being inferior." - Shelby Steele
"There is a class of c
May 1, 2007 - 15:23 ET by Flashman"There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well."
~ Booker T. Washington