Tuesday, January 21, 2003
Posted
7:12 PM
by Gene
Read this, from The Boston Globe, and get mad:
The editor of a sizable newspaper told me recently that he decided the racial makeup of four new hires - two minorities, a white woman, and a white male - before reviewing a single applicant. In other words, if Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein applied, only one of them would get a slot.
As Andrew Sullivan says,
Isn't that illegal? And if a leading editor is enforcing illegal racist hiring policies, shouldn't a journalist tell us who he or she is? Or are liberal editors above the law?
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