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I wish this statement by 10 leading journalism deans had started with needed self-criticism of our field & how we have utterly failed communities of color, who had to resort to social media to be seen, for they were too long not heard in mass media. 1/
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I wish the deans had strongly criticized the field we send graduates to for chronically failing to diversify newsrooms--or even enumerate that failure--& for frustrating journalists of color such that journalism does not promote and empower them and loses too many each year. 2/
I wish the statement were more specifically critical of the culture of journalism schools themselves for not facing race squarely. Every school, including mine -- including me -- has much work to do. Let us start there. 3/
I'm not going to add hot takes on the Northwestern student paper's decisions; there are plenty. But I am going to raise a few higher issues this episode brings out: 1/
First, I worry that journalism will cease to protect, to fight for, that which is public. That is what we report on, monitor, witness, share. The presumption of a right to privacy in public could kill journalism faster than any bad business model. 2/
I wrote "Public Parts" because I was celebrating the expansion of the public, the spreading of the franchise of publicness, the generosity of sharing. I was also defending that which is public for the sake of journalism. These were not popular positions; less popular now. 3/
