“Baron’s comments acutely exemplify how newsroom leaders’ moves to diversify their staffs not only have been insufficient, but have been totally undercut by their refusal to listen to the people they’ve hired. They refuse to seriously reassess their above-the-fray, both-sides approach to covering urgent national issues, even when the people they hire point out that some of those issues are matters of life and death. They refuse to consider that the vaunted notions of
objectivity they defend so fiercely are actually, in practice, the views of
a white guy who doesn’t even exist.”
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