The elite white press corps has a myopic understanding of how racial inequality works.

courtesy-AlterNet

“There were early indications that corporate media coverage of Barack Obama’s candidacy would be squirm-inducing, putting on display the elite (mainly white) press corps’ murky ideas about race much more than any straightforward reckoning of black Americans’ situation or what an Obama presidency might mean for their concerns.”

squirm inducing- I like it