mmmightymightypeople:

for example, instead of calling it “the mainstream news” we call it “the white community’s news”—do u see what I mean?

and that’s NOT stretching it at all to call it “the white community’s news”—if you look at the historical trajectory of media in the US—there were ALWAYS multiple presses operating within different communities—and the white community specifically worked to *shut down* the presses of other communities. see ida b well’s newspapers/publishing efforts throughout her life. the normalization of the idea that there is one over arching “mainstream” press that is representative of all (and then there’s the rest of us) is *actually* the *invisibilization* of the very real white supreamcist heteropatriarchal violence that either *destroyed* or *ate up* (think BET) the communication infrastructure of non-white communities.

what does the terminology “the mainstream news” make invisible? what assumptions does it create? what does it make “normal”? what are the consequences for not being “normal?