> let's talk about it in realistic terms and figure out how to make it go faster instead of focusing on the outliers The media's power lies in focusing on (emo

> let's talk about it in realistic terms and figure out how to make it go faster instead of focusing on the outliers The media's power lies in focusing on (emotionally charged) outliers. That and wordplay (e.g. a NYT article said "whites and Asians dominate" some top-ranked schools, when whites alone were in fact underrepresented [1]). Asking them to stop is asking the king to give up his crown. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/17/nyregion/high-school-admissions-nyc.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/17/nyregion/high-school-admi...