George E. Curry, NNPA Columnist
Black Entertainment Television received an award from the National Association of Black Journalists last week that it did not want – the group’s Thumbs Down Award. The NABJ Board of Directors voted to give the non-ward award to BET for its depiction of Black images in the media, lack of news and public affairs and the network’s neglect to broadcast the funeral of civil rights icon Coretta Scott King in 2006.
