It was amazing. The Nov. 2 column by Laura Washington left me speechless, which since I’m a gabby fellow does not often happen. [See LW’s lede for model here.]
It’s about this bunch of Chi Trib retirees getting together to do so-called public service reporting — all white, almost all male of a certain age.
So what? It’s their nickel, their time, requiring no federal money. Let ‘em go, forget about it. That’s my advice. They will succeed or they won’t. In this day there are no news monopolies, so the market will decide.
As for so-called diversity, which is Laura’s requirement, please. In lieu of fast-disappearing professionalism, the only diversity that matters is political. Socio-political-economic, I suppose. O’Shea and friends are not likely to supply that, especially if NYTimes is their anchor buyer.
Blithe Spirit 
“Diversity” is a cop-out term used by people who like to pretend that their (personal and particular) biases are noble and legitimate. Beware of demagogues who use the term to excuse their own narrow, stupid, and often hateful expressions of bigotry. Such are our sometime leaders — sometimes clever, sometimes articulate, but reliably autoritarian and self-aggrandizing.
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