Critical Writing Index

How Television Covered The McDuffie Riot in May 1980

by Mohamed Hamaludin

The Miami Times, May 15, 1986, v. 63, no. 36

A review of David Shulman's film titled Race Against Prime Time, which "seeks to gauge the response of television news coverage against the background of the “prime time” demand...which requires compression of the news to the point where often it has little meaning". The filmmaker makes it clear in his film that "there was virtually no coverage of Black Miami since the riots of the 1960s" (M. Hamaludin).

ITEM 1986.072 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Race Against Prime TimeDavid Shulman