AMERICANALMANAC (Alan Benson) - Gayle King's on-air fixation on holdout juror's race raises uncomfortable questions about media priorities
A CBS anchor's visible shock that the lone holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy triple murder mistrial was a Black man has drawn sharp criticism, and exposed the racial assumptions that pervade elite media. Gayle King was interviewing juror Paula Devlin on "CBS Mornings" Friday when Devlin revealed that the single juror who refused to […] The post Gayle King's on-air fixation on holdout juror's race raises uncomfortable questions about media priorities appeared first on American Almanac .
A CBS anchor's visible shock that the lone holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy triple murder mistrial was a Black man has drawn sharp criticism, and exposed the racial assumptions that pervade elite media. Gayle King was interviewing juror Paula Devlin on "CBS Mornings" Friday when Devlin revealed that the single juror who refused to join the other eleven had been the only Black person on the panel. King, 71, stopped the conversation cold. "A black man is the holdout juror?" she asked. Then: "Woah, I have to sit with that for just a second." The moment, captured on video and posted to the show's official X account, drew immediate backlash from conservative commentators who said King's reaction laid bare a set of assumptions about how a…Open