Posted on June 24, 2020 by John Hinderaker
Racial Politics at the L.A. Times
The newsroom at the Los Angeles Times is being roiled by complaints that the paper hasn’t done enough to recruit and retain minority journalists. Earlier today, Executive Editor Norman Pearlstein conducted a Zoom staff meeting to address the complaints.
The town hall, which spanned roughly four and a half hours on a Zoom webinar, came a day after the Black Caucus of the paper’s guild sent a letter to the paper’s owner, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, Pearlstine and managing editors Kimi Yoshino and Scott Kraft outlining a list of demands for a more representative newsroom.
Those aren’t the minorities we mean!
The meeting opened with Pearlstine speaking for roughly half an hour, where he admitted that, not until recently [sic], he used to think to be anti-racist meant being “colorblind.â€
How silly of him.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/06/racial-politics-at-the-l-a-times.php
