J-school, repeatedly: If your mother says she loves you, check it out.

Actual news media if you apply this principle to America's Shining City on An Exceptional Manifest Destiny Lost Cause Hill mythos: No not like that.
"Higher-ups at publications across the country have been worrying ever since about what 'woke newsrooms' augur for their profession."

I bet they do lol
washingtonian.com/2021/08/25/ins…
They are very much aware of what kind of sieve the "major newsroom experience" language acts as.

That's the point.
They will sit there and lie in their own publication that the race-and-gender pay gap costing BW $30K/year has nothing to do with either while continuing to perpetuate it
1) Watch the Reagan doc on Showtime. Take some time to not punch a wall.

2) Ok great. Consider that 2 of the 4 men who selected the executive editor of the Post are

One of the most notorious union busters of the modern age (owner)

A former Reagan advisor (publisher)
Now, consider how the concept of objectivity gets selectively wielded to protect a certain status quo.

And that one of these men gave Van Jones, of all people, $100M.

I mean.

Come on.
The place does good work and I love a bunch of my former colleagues there.

But the objectivity figleaf is so obviously a silly one. Objectivity as defined by who?
The space dong guy who hates paying taxes and hoards money?
These problems predated him, the Reagan advisor publisher, and the rape-survivor shaming editors who selected the new exec editor but I wouldn't be too optimistic about them addressing the institution's long-standing policy of willful blindness toward its own racism and classism

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