Bemoaning the Lack of Diversity in Media, Volume 4,362
Above, behold the new Washington Post Politics authors page. Yet again, a sea of white, male faces. Sigh. (Ed Note: We love you parent company! We really really do!!)
Monica Potts has a smart take over at The American Prospect, and others point out that the paper ran a column decrying its own lack of diversity— TWO years ago. Ombudsman Deborah Howell wrote:
The Post’s op-ed page is too male and too white … The 2008 numbers as of Wednesday: 654 op-ed pieces — 575 by men, 79 by women and about 80 by minorities.
Howell blamed the problem on two factors: WaPo “tradition” and the fact that “women and people of color don’t submit nearly as many op-eds as white men do.” Are we alone in feeling a little defeated by the fact that even though Howell brought the problem to the paper’s attention, and called on her editors to actively recruit women and minorities, two years later, so little has changed?
