Letters | The trouble on the air

LIKE MANY black Philadelphians, I'm deeply disappointed in the content of so much news broadcasting and media programming.

It continues to glamorize and highlight gun violence, crime and other grotesque and negative aspects of life in Philadelphia's black community. Then you wonder why our children act the way they do.

Many young black people are starting businesses, winning track meets, fighting crime, doing good in school and going to church. But you'd never know it by what's projected on TV, in the movies and on video games.

It continues to project killing after killing, slaughter after slaughter. You'd expect for the bloodletting on TV to eventually stop, but it doesn't. It glorifies the police, but forgets the hundreds of community activist and organizations who have fought violence for decades.

There is a deep need for progressive people, especially progressive black people, to take over or gain access to news sources to help paint a fairer and more positive picture of the black community - and black youth in particular.

If we have to buy you out or push you out, there will be positive change. Many of us refuse to let our children watch the defilement you put on the airways. We aren't fools who'll continue to be sold such media hogwash, which doesn't reflect our good deeds and hard work.

Sell, improve - or perish!

Tracy Gibson, Philadelphia