Indigenous Issues

https://fair.org/home/why-coverage-of-indigenous-issues-is-so-lousy/?awt_l=Ke_9G&awt_m=gEJRUG01FoR._TQ

Many key points - this one I found telling -

Everyone agreed our coverage was “lousy,” and got worse  throughout the province, the further away from the city you were. Most gave me the usual excuses: We didn’t have enough time or people to do better, given tight deadlines; didn’t have adequate resources or people, given tighter budgets; and we worried about accusations of racism if we did a story about the problems, and accusations about racism if we painted over the problems.

One producer in TV news said something different. She didn’t agree with what she called easy excuses. She said it was about money—advertising. Poor people in poor neighborhoods didn’t buy advertising, as a rule. Indigenous peoples, often the poorest of the poor, not only didn’t buy ads, but didn’t pay attention to ads or buy newspapers, a major source of stories and ideas for local broadcasting newsrooms. To her, Indigenous peoples got the coverage they paid for: no money, no coverage.

Put simply—we weren’t considered part of the audience or readership.