{"id":20294,"date":"2013-08-07T18:08:54","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T18:08:54","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-08-07T18:08:54","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T18:08:54","slug":"cnbc-reporters-use-of-chink-in-the-armor-condemned-by-asian-american-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=20294","title":{"rendered":"CNBC Reporter&#8217;s Use of &#8220;Chink in the Armor&#8221; Condemned By Asian American Journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The comments by CNBC&#8217;s Robert Frank drew a critical response from the Asian American Journalists Association, which condemned the statements as &#8220;offensive&#8221; and &#8220;inappropriate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Discussing whether Deng&#8217;s new lawyer might be able to gain her a share of the Murdoch family trusts during the divorce case, Frank stated on CNBC&#8217;s Power Lunch: &#8220;I wonder, you know, Peter, what do you think the chink in the armor here might be? That&#8217;s what [Deng&#8217;s lawyer] is so good at, is finding a chink in the pre-nups and all these trusts. What do you think they may be looking for to get more out of this divorce?&#8221;<br \/>\n<iframe class=\"video-embed\" src=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/embed\/static\/clips\/2013\/07\/30\/31258\/cnbc-powerlunch-20130730-frankdeng\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Deng is a Chinese-born American citizen. She and Rubert Murdoch married in 1999 and have two children together. In June, Rupert Murdoch filed for divorce.<\/p>\n<p>Contacted by Media Matters, Bobby Caina Calvan, media watch chair for the Asian American Journalists Association, said after reviewing the video that Frank used &#8220;an unfortunate phrasing and people should know better in this day and age that a phrase like that, that I&#8217;m not going to repeat, is offensive to many of us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Acknowledging that the statement may have been &#8220;spoken innocently&#8221; and could have been part of an &#8220;off-the-cuff question,&#8221; Calvan nonetheless added that &#8220;we would like CNBC and Mr. Frank to realize that the words uttered on air today about an Asian-American in the news were inappropriate in any context.&#8221; He further stated that the &#8220;phrase shouldn&#8217;t have been used, it is a no-brainer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Reached for comment, a CNBC spokesman said any offensive connotation was &#8220;totally unintentional,&#8221; declining to offer any additional explanation.<\/p>\n<p>Calvan said AAJA has reached out to CNBC and was willing to help the network identify &#8220;words that many of us feel are offensive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In February 2012, ESPN fired an employee who used the phrase in a headline about Asian-American NBA player Jeremy Lin. That usage drew criticism from AAJA and others.<\/p>\n<p>At that time, AAJA issued a statement that said, in part:<\/p>\n<p>continue reading:<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/30\/cnbc-reporters-use-of-chink-in-the-armor-condem\/195140<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The comments by CNBC&#8217;s Robert Frank drew a critical response from the Asian American Journalists Association, which condemned the statements<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","medium_large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","1536x1536":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","2048x2048":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-highlighted-post":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-small":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x90.jpg","colormag-featured-image":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-default-news":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","colormag-featured-image-large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-block-extra-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-small-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-medium-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg"},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"Admin","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/53e6cdc30765aade0129f85e5aeb50124b1d3f5bb9a70373be31e4eb328371e0?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":"0","magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"The comments by CNBC&#8217;s Robert Frank drew a critical response from the Asian American Journalists Association, which condemned the statements","magazineBlocksPostCategories":["News"],"magazineBlocksPostViewCount":137,"magazineBlocksPostReadTime":2,"magazine_blocks_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg",113,170,false],"medium":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg",113,170,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg",113,150,true]},"magazine_blocks_author":{"display_name":"Admin","author_link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?author=1"},"magazine_blocks_comment":0,"magazine_blocks_author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/53e6cdc30765aade0129f85e5aeb50124b1d3f5bb9a70373be31e4eb328371e0?s=96&d=mm&r=g","magazine_blocks_category":"<a href=\"#\" class=\"category-link category-link-1\">News<\/a>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}