And if I cover a media, marketing or film event and have video footage I typically do not post an article. I did not take any filming at this year’s E3 Expo, so I have to write an article to document my experiences. And also my Hiphopbattle.com editor can choose whether to post video clips or just a photo gallery. That’s why I make sure to spread out my Comic-Con 2008 video coverage on multiple fronts than merely relying on just Hiphopbattle.com. But after all that jumping through hoops with the Comic-Con International PR office we were still denied press to Comic-Con 2009.

One would think that now is the golden time to be a minority journalist with the election of Barack Obama. But with the recent closing of the black search engine Rushmoredrive.com, the closing of Vibe magazine and several U.S. black owned newspapers, radio stations and TV stations on the verge of going under I would say the opposite. There really is no practical reason for many white people to accept that we still need minority news outlets when we have an African-American president. But that sentiment is only valid if one believed that the mainstream news media can adequately cover every news story from a majority and minority standpoint. The media cannot do that. When a month ago there is a “supposed” nationwide poll by NBC/Newsweek, Gallup or Wall Street that says that Barack Obama has a 65 +favorable rating then all the stories were saying how great a job he was doing.

Then exactly one month later those same polls say Obama positive job rating has dipped down to below 49 points. And now Obama’s grand agenda and initiatives are in jeopardy. And now a month later nothing that Obama wants to get done on health care will happen. But what I know is that many black people, who are extremely confident that Obama is doing a good job, do not suddenly a month later think he is failing. The true purpose of minority journalists is to not to take a sudden snap poll in the African-American community on a particular economic or social national issue and then pretend that the results apply to all non-minorities. Only the mainstream media gets to play that game. It is to their advantage to build up Obama one month and then tear him down the next. Cable news outlet can internally generate lots of discussions and reports based on polls that have no data or input from minorities.

So in the end I will have to write back to our Youtube subscriber poppnfresh1 and tell him that I will do my best to contact the moderator and panelists on The Black Panel 2009. And I even have to wonder how long Comic-Con will keep hosting The Black Panel in the Obama Era when they have a quota on how many minority journalists or news outlets are allowed get press passes. Or when they try and demean minority journalists like myself by saying we are “creative” types. Hopefully, I’ll get to go cover Comic-Con International 2010, but if FuTurXTV.com & Hiphopbattle.com doesn’t get approved again for whatever lame reason I still have plenty of memories and great video footage from Comic-Con International 2008.