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'The View': Whoopi Goldberg rips New York Times over Oscar article snub
The Feb. 13 issue of the Sunday New York Times includes a well-timed article about the lack of ethnic diversity among Oscar nominated films.Addressing the article on the Feb. 14 episode of "The View," Barbara Walters claimed "Hollywood Whiteout" -- written by Times film critics Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott -- includes a few inaccuracies, including the assertion that only 7 black actors and actresses have taken trophies. And who's one of the winners they left out? Whoopi Goldberg.
"This is a sloppy journalism," says Goldberg, who won the supporting actress Oscar in 1991 for "Ghost" and was nominated in 1986 for "The Color Purple." "You're supposed to be better than this."
Goldberg isn't alone in her frustration. Co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck says that she quit her subscription to the paper over the error.
"I'm embarrassed to tell you it hurt me terribly," says Goldberg, who whips out her statue as a reminder. "When you win an Academy Award, that's part of what you've done, your legacy."
Watch out, NYT. Whoopi isn't just an Oscar-winner. She's has an EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony), and you don't want to know the kind of strings she can pull.
Update: In an email to Zap2it, a representative from the New York Times refutes the inaccuracies claimed by the hosts of "The View." "The point of the piece was not to name every black actor or actress who has been awarded an Oscar, it was to draw a comparison between the number who won prior to 2002 (the year Halle Berry and Denzel Washington won) and those who have won since," they write. "And our story states very clearly that in 73 years, prior to 2002, only seven black actors/actresses won Oscars." An earlier version of this article did not make that clear.
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You go girl! Ain't nuthin' like us n!iggas, we gotta stay up togetha, holla at me when u in Milwaukee, luv ya lots Whoopi.
If you read the NY Times article, it doesn't actually say that there were only 7 black Oscar winners. It states that in the previous 73 years BEFORE Halle Berry and Denzel Washington won their Oscars, 7 winners were black. The article goes on to name actors that have won since Ms. Berry and Mr. Washington won. The wording of the article can cause confusion, but should be read carefully before drawing conclusions.
Who even reads the mexican owned NYT anymore...the treasonous anti-american paper is no longer revelant.
The problem is, 73 years isn't significant unless you start from today because it takes you to 1939 when the first African American won an Oscar. It's poorly written which is the core of the problem. I should have read in the 63/4 years prior to Washington and Berry (rather than 73) only seven African Americans won academy awards
I just read the article today, and must admit that I, previously an admirer of what I'd deemed Whoopi's intelligence, am very disappointed in The View's lead pundit. She must have simply scanned the New York Time's article for her name. Otherwise she would have realized that the article was very supportive of Blacks in film, that the critics lament the dearth of roles for Blacks, and that there was no need for Whoopi's name to have been mentioned! Since Barbara brought up the article and purposely provided an opening for Whoopi's tirade, she (a journalist!) must not have carefully read the article either! And Elizabeth...well, she's never been the sharpest utensil in the drawer.To her credit and, perhaps, in her defense, Joy (a former English teacher) must not have read the article and therefore did not comment.