Posted on 07/04/2020 1:51:49 PM PDT by edwinland
The editor of The Boston Globe plans to give reporters and other staff members “the necessary time to look back six months and assess their work through a racial lens,” according to a memo he sent the newspaper’s staff earlier this week.
Brian McGrory, the editor, wants reporters, columnists, editors, photographers, and video producers to count “how many people of color were subjects, how many were quoted as experts, how many were depicted in photographs and videos, and in what fashion?”
It’s not a witch hunt, he said.
“This exercise is not meant to embarrass or penalize anyone. It’s to learn from our own work and create awareness of what we need to do,” McGrory wrote in the memo. “We’ll figure out a meaningful way to share the broader results.”
The memo, which is dated Wednesday, July 1, was published Friday, July 3 by Northeastern University journalism professor and media blogger Dan Kennedy at WGBH.org.
The Globe plans to provide lists of sources of color to reporters and editors for news stories and other articles. McGrory said it is “of the utmost importance for everyone to include a diverse range of voices in stories and to develop sources who don’t look like you.”
Starting in 2021, McGrory said, the Globe will stop hiring summer interns who are white, and will instead “reframe” the program as “a diversity internship and training program in which all participants will be students or recent graduates of color.”
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McGrory, who grew up in Weymouth and took over as editor of the Globe in 2013, said the newspaper will examine “core racial issues of inequality,” calling Boston “one of the most unequal places on the planet.”
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“This exercise is not meant to embarrass or penalize anyone. It’s to learn from our own work and create awareness of what we need to do,” McGrory wrote in the memo. “We’ll figure out a meaningful way to share the broader results.”
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Time to renew the affirmative action programs beyond the level we’re already operating at, eh Comrade?
My first thought as well
Boston is only about 25% black.
What happens to the Democrat Party if white Democrats, all over America, start to decide that Democrats, and the Left in general, being in power is going to be detrimental to the lives of themselves and their families?
How is this even legal? Can’t the EEOC step in?
}:-)4
LOL. So all the senior staff at the BG and editors will be lilly white and all the incoming interns and consequently the hires are going to be “POC”.
That will work.
The Left is going to need a bigger bubble.
The people who get the Globe barely know how to read. So it won’t matter if it’s in English or whatever the interns speak.
Affirmative action on steroids is what it is!
So that’s racist.
I keep hearing that European Americans have white privilege. Where is this mythical beast?
viewing thru a ‘racial lens’...
if black experts were referred to more then 12% of the time, they would be over represented.
It will get worse. Anything and everything unless whites stand up for themselves.
It’s like Comrade Beria said, “Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime.” If you look through a “racial lens” you will find the crime.
In short, they will be racists.
JoMa
Amazing that this kind of thing is still going on decades later.
Should lose whatever special Constitutional privileges it currently enjoys.
To ‘Assess Their Work Through A Racist Lens,’ Boston Globe Editor Says
Fixed it by changing only two letters!
Well, I doubt he remembers a BG intern by the name of Jayson Blair.
And how well the BG help train him in the best journalistic practices...
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