Blacks Outraged: Popeye's Runs Out of Chicken

Damn the news for taking advantage of yet another opportunity to broadcast black self-humiliation (see Leprechaun story). Shaking my head vigorously...

And here's WHAM News' response to the backlash.

Comments

[Vern]

Damn man!!!

[J.]

"Our job as journalists is not to “whitewash (sorry, no pun intended)” the news. We aren’t here to manufacture, make up, or tamper with what exists so we ran the story."

Taken from the response and that is of utmost importance when ever you right a news story. You present the facts how they are laid out and do not interject your own personal opinion or bias into the story. The story happened to be about Popeye's chicken running out of... chicken. Black people where just there to comment. Obviously in some instances location plays a part in what type of demographic you can interview.

[Traestar]

That's nothing really, we're used to it in Atlantic City, because every night they run out of chicken!! Especially when they first opened, but yea this isn't an exclusive or nothing like that!!

Up there in Jacksonville, FL, there was a case to where a white couple (one of whom worked there apparently) we're getting robbed for their Popeye's Chicken! I mean overall it was humilation... but I'm sorry the comments the robbers made was funny!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/13/popeyes-chicken-in-jackso_n_186465.html

[dlp1212]

The white people were edited out and this so called journalist knows that!! You can talk that demographic crap all you want, but I've managed a restaurant in a predominately black neighborhood and white people love chicken as much as blacks. It was a buffet and when we needed more chicken, believe me, the white customers let you know about it quicker than anyone else. This was done purposely!!