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Omar Wasow on the digital divide

On The Media: Transcript of "Search is the New Black" (May 2, 2008)

And what we’ve seen with the Internet is that the digital divide was really, I think, more about a moment in time where there was a lag between early adopters and mass America. It’s become something that’s much more part of the fabric of everyday America, including black America.

Where we do see a divide on the Internet continues to be around sort of class and education, less so about race.

Omar Wasow spoke with On the Media’s Bob Garfield about African-American media.

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