Hypocrites: Most Liberal Media Titans Won't Share Info on Racial, Gender Breakdown of Staff
By Tim Graham | May 28, 2018 6:46 AM EDT
The national media love to preach about how everyone needs to offer more transparency -- to the media, since they always represent the public interest. That’s why it’s amusing to see them refuse to be transparent on a controversial matter like hiring minority journalists. The Left is not going to be happy if they report on themselves. They're going to be judged as too white, too male.
Farai Chideya, a black former Newsweek reporter and NPR host now serving as a Joan Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard, has been compiling a report on the state of diversity in American newsrooms. Do the liberal media practice what they preach? Nieman Lab reported what followed, a bad case of media lockjaw:
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