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by Emil Guillermo<\/em>

Taking my storytelling to theaters before live audiences has been part of my evolution in \u201cpoetic journalism.\u201d

For the last few years, I\u2019ve taken my columns and turned them into springboards for my comic memoirs that I bring to the stage.

The newest iteration of my live Amok monologues features a new story about my conversion therapy as a transdad.

Conversion Therapy? Transdad?

You can see the show in New York City<\/a> starting April 5. If you\u2019re in the area come by: https:\/\/www.frigid.nyc\/event\/6897:625\/<\/a>. Livestreaming may be available.

But I am still honored to see my columns each week in the Hawaii Filipino Chronicle. Even when I was in mainstream media locally or nationally, I always saw my work in the ethnic media as the most important.

For example, mainstream media will gladly report poll findings on voters of color as they did after last week\u2019s Michigan primary.

The emerging narrative in the 2024 campaign has been how President Joe Biden and the Democrats are leaking POC support, making the possibility of a Trump win greater than it should be.

In 2020, Biden was up 62% among voters of color. Last week the number shrunk. Biden is up just 21% among voters of color.

Another poll showed similar drops in Arizona, Nevada and other key states.

The white media will report the headlines. The ethnic media is where we turn to understand why POC feel the way they do, and how we could be the vote that determines the future of American democracy.

I first began writing my \u201cEmil Amok\u201d columns on Filipinos in publications in 1991. I\u2019ve been writing race-focused columns like this for over 30 years.

I mention this simply to indicate how much journalism has changed in that time. The \u201cethnic media\u201d was always separate from the mainstream, serving audiences that felt neglected by the white media.

If you didn\u2019t see your Black, Brown, or Asian story, idea, or thought reflected in places like The New York Times, you could always get it in the ethnic media.

But now as our country has grown more diverse, all of the media has taken the condition of the ethnic media.

The perfect mirror that I had hoped to see in mainstream media is becoming a pipe dream. Instead of trying to serve all, journalism has become fragmented, communicating to specific audiences that exist in \u201cnews bubbles.\u201d

At least that\u2019s the latest take by Axios<\/a>, which since its inception has dealt with the changes in journalism in its own way. It established a slightly more intellectual USA Today meets \u201cCliff Notes\u201d style it brands as \u201csmart brevity.\u201d

But now, in our current divided America, diversity has proven to be too polarizing to create a mass audience that sustains mainstream media. Profits are smaller than greed demands.

Big Media is discovering that fragmenting into news silos is the only capitalistic thing to do. You make more money going for the niches among whites.

It\u2019s an unfortunate turn because profit is now the arbiter of truth.

If there is no one set of facts that we as Americans can agree on, the news media now gladly serves up whatever an audience wants, not what it needs to know.

This is the mentality that gives us Fox, NewsMax, and One America. One is right, the other righter, the other righter still.

This is the new news environment for an algorithmic America.

It only seems worse in an election year because we now have narratives galore to choose from, all claiming to be truthier than the other.

And the truth can be customized just for your group because each demographic, organization, class, age, and religious sect will have its own news source that it prefers and relies on.

We are closer and closer to the day when yes, not only are you entitled to your own opinion, but you are also entitled to your own facts.

This is a detriment to journalism and our democracy. What\u2019s true? We\u2019ll just have to debate \u2018til the death, I suppose. Maybe literally.

As society has become more diverse, mainstream news media seems ripe for an \u201cethnic media\u201d approach of its own.

\u201cAmerica is splintering into more than a dozen news bubbles based on ideology, wealth, jobs, age and location,\u201d writes Axios Today.

Notice Axios didn\u2019t say \u201crace.\u201d

Because this is the breaking up of the white media into the new \u201cwhite ethnic media.\u201d

It\u2019s the way Asian Americans have always seen the mainstream since we arrived in America and were forced to publish our own media, many times in our native tongues.

And now just as America has evolved, all of media and journalism seems to have changed differently than expected.

Too bad. The mainstream was once seen as our common ground. What Axios is saying is in an America where there is very little common ground, this is what news has become. What we thought we had in common through media is now \u201cshattered into a bunch of misshapen pieces.\u201d

The edges are sharp. People can get hurt.

I\u2019m still holding out hope for mainstream media orgs that still value being the comprehensive source of truth, the perfect mirror that democracy demands.

It all points to the need to support your local ethnic media, in print or online. Where else are we going to turn to for the truth?

It\u2019s publications like this one, the Hawaii Filipino Chronicle. This is where we fill in the blanks.

EMIL GUILLERMO<\/strong> is a journalist and commentator. He does a mini-talk show on <\/em>YouTube.com\/@emilamok1<\/em><\/a>.  He wishes all his readers a Happy Easter!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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