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If the sentiments expressed in those internal deliberations seem perfectly normal to you, we really do have irreconcilable moral and ethical viewpoints. > brea

If the sentiments expressed in those internal deliberations seem perfectly normal to you, we really do have irreconcilable moral and ethical viewpoints. > breadth of viewpoints gives richer coverage Breadth of viewpoint has nothing intrinsically to do with the color of one's skin. > Journalism, good reporting, brings deep informed insights from the ground. That's not going to happen when reporting on foreign countries and disadvantaged communities if all the reporters are (say) from a WASP background and perspective. Again, the quality of a reporter and their work has nothing to do intrinsically with the color of their skin.

defrost 2y ago
> If the sentiments expressed in those internal deliberations seem perfectly normal to you I didn't say that. Perhaps you might like to re-read. We may have different backgrounds in parsing English. > Breadth of viewpoint has nothing intrinsically to do with the color of one's skin. Again, I didn't say that. The point of these fat fingered US attempts to fix a problem is to ... fix a problem. The problem is that the starting point in reporting, ethinic studies, and geography was that the fields were dominated by an unrepresentative minority; white faces with vanilla backgrounds being the voices of authority on subjects they had no experience of. That was the problem. These fixes aren't great.