For people who once prided themselves on equal opportunity, in this case for news coverage, our mainstreamers manage to look unrecognizable to those with honesty in mind.

For instance, Dennis Byrne on same-sex marriage:

A Pew Research Center study found that media coverage is heavily skewed (by 5-t0-1) in favor of same sex marriage marriage–to no one’s surprise except, of course, much of the media. In a fight [flight?] of bashfulness, some media ignored the news.

It began many years ago, with regards to another hot-button issue, black crime, as in my book Company Man: My Jesuit Life, 1950-1968, page 180:

. . . . At [St.] Ignatius [as a young priest] . . . . I wrote on the summer’s civil rights agitation [tagging] along with a Newsweek intern whom bureau chief Hal Bruno introduced me to. I’d got to know Bruno through my brother Paul, who headed the Chicago ad office. . . . .

Bruno was a good guy. It was fun sitting in his office talking about the job he was doing. They had done a major story on crime in the cities but had to wait for a cover picture showing a white criminal. It took a while, and the story was put on hold. Bruno did not sympathize with this 1965 correctness, but the news industry was already minding its p’s and q’s in that matter. Dishonesty was replacing hostility to blacks, then still “colored” or “Negroes,” of course. . . .

A fuller treatment of the problem may be found in William McGowan’s Coloring the News; how crusading for diversity has corrupted American journalism.