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"A magnificent collection of awkward facts, troubling arguments, and unfashionable opinions that reveal a cloud of dubious orthodoxy behind the ostensibly just pursuit of diversity in the news and the newsrooms.""Something has gone terribly wrong with the noble goal of diversifying American newsrooms. . . . McGowan is right to argue that journalists should be investigating the race industry, not working for it."
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Paperback: 262 pages
Publisher: Encounter Books; 1 edition (May 1, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1893554600
ISBN-13: 978-1893554603
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5.8 x 0.8 x 9.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
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If you want to know how a Jayson Blair could have happened, this is the book for you.Although Coloring the News was published in 2001, author William McGowan shows how Blair, far from being the fluke he has been portrayed as by the mainstream media, was inevitable. McGowan chronicles how - following the lead of New York Times publisher, Arthur Sulzberger Jr. - major mainstream, daily newspapers, and TV news operations all over America, gave up on telling the truth as the goal of the news business. And he names names.Sulzberger & Co. replaced truth with "diversity" (radicalized affirmative action aka multiculturalism aka political correctness), which involves not only hiring as reporters and editors black and Hispanic (also gay and feminist) applicants with inferior qualifications, but also imposing the multicultural/pc "script" on the reporting of events, which means that often there is no reporting at all, or only fraudulent reporting, in which certain parties are quoted and certain research cited, no matter how dishonest the former and no matter how discredited the latter is.McGowan demonstrates how many media organizations, particularly the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, ABC News, CBS News and NPR, have botched story after story after story. He does his best work skewering the New York Times, which over the past ten years, has become a self-caricature of a great metropolitan daily. I know what a good job McGowan does on the Times, because I've covered many of the stories he discusses, and have caught the Times misrepresenting many stories he doesn't discuss.The author argues that in seeking to be cheerleaders for certain groups, the media have hurt them, by suppressing unpleasant truths which must be faced, in order to help the groups.Examining dozens of stories focusing on race, sex (feminism and homosexuality) and immigration, McGowan shows how in each case the mainstream media engaged in deliberate misrepresentation, ignored salient facts that contradicted their "script," or killed the story outright. For instance, he contrasts coverage of the Matthew Shepard murder with coverage of the murder of Jesse Dirkhising.In the first month after two thugs robbed and murdered openly gay, Wyoming college student Matthew Shepard, over 3,000 stories were devoted to the case, which was exploited, in order to get hate crime legislation passed that treated the murder of gays as more of a crime than the murder of heterosexuals. Meanwhile, the murder of 13-year-old Jesse Dirkhising by two gay pedophiles in Arkansas, was "killed," with only 46 stories appearing the first month after the murder. The New York Times alone ran 195 stories on the Shepard case, but NONE on Jesse Dirkhising, including during the March, 2001 trial of one of his killers (he was convicted; the other later pleaded guilty). The reason was simple: Covering the Shepard case cast gays in the role of victims; covering the Dirkhising case cast gays as the villains, which political correctness forbids.Another group of botched big stories McGowan which dissects concern female Air Force and Navy officers who, though incompetent and/or guilty of flouting service rules, were pushed along the path to pilot, because the Pentagon had adopted illegal quotas for women pilots. As McGowan shows, any number of major media outlets (CBS News, the Times, NPR) insisted on presenting these stories, the facts be damned, as cases of heroic women battling an oppressive patriarchy.And McGowan shows how the corruption of the Washington Post, via diversity, harmed the District of Columbia during the years-long political control of Mayor Marion Barry, a corrupt, drug-addled, megalomaniac. Instead of exposing Barry, black Post reporters and editors protected him, and harassed white reporters out of doing serious work on his corrupt administration. The black staffers engaged in openly racist harassment, "spiking stories," or causing them to die the death of a thousand cuts, through constant demands for more information.Considering the author's restrained tone, it is a minor miracle that this book was published at all. Consider the review from Publisher's Weekly posted at the amazon.com web site, whose author called McGowan's book "inflammatory." The critic didn't come up with a single example of "inflammatory" writing, because none exists. What the writer really meant was, 'How dare he show up my politics for the soft totalitarianism that it is!'Similarly, Library Journal reviewer Susan M. Colowick calls McGowan's evidence "impressive" and "anecdotal" in the same sentence, and attacks him for "refer[ring] to the 'outdated paradigm of white oppression' and repeatedly us[ing] the value-laden term illegitimacy for out-of-wedlock births."In a review for Washington Monthly, McGowan's old stomping grounds, Seth Mnookin attacked McGowan for laying into a New York Times writer who had described mass murderer Roland Smith Jr./Abubunde Mulocko (who committed the December, 1995 Harlem Massacre, murdering seven people) as a man of "principle." But McGowan told the truth! (I read the Times article.)And then there's the Times, the "Grey Lady" herself, whose brass refused to assign a writer to review Coloring the News. (When the Times' editors are pushing a book, they will run as many as three positive reviews of it by different writers on different days.)In the mainstream media, nothing has changed. In the wake of the Jayson Blair scandal, where internships and jobs were thrown at an incompetent, unqualified young man by the nation's biggest media organizations (the Boston Globe, Washington Post, AND the Times) solely because of the color of his skin, mainstream reporters have been screaming from the rooftops, "Race had nothing to do with it!" and branding anyone who would state the obvious (in spite of then-Times Executive Editor Howell Raines' confession) a "hater."As McGowan points out, the refusal of the mainstream media to honestly report the news, has fueled the explosion of the Web and talk radio as news sources. And so, Big Media can call their critics "racist!," "sexist!," and "homophobic!" all they want, or try and kill them with silence. Bill McGowan warned the media, but they ignored him. The corporate media still push agitprop in place of the news, and continue to wonder why the public increasingly deserts them.Affirmative action corrupts, diversity corrupts absolutely.Originally published in The Critical Critic, 6 July, 2003.
This book, winner of a prestigious journalism award, details how the American mainstream media have covered such issues as race, gay, feminist, immigration, terrorism, etc. The author places himself ideologically: "Neither a conservative nor a liberal, I consider myself a pragmatist." (p. 8).The overall problem of the news media in America is stated: "Journalism, as I had known it, was distinguished by its gratuitous cynicism, brash iconoclasm and ready impertinence." Now, it has become the home of a few causes that are not to be questioned or criticized, "a crusade across the length and breadth of the American media." (p. 10).News editors are required to go on special re-education retreats, complete with role-playing and other indoctrination techniques, designed not only to foster the right opinions but the right attitudes. Foundations such as [...], for instance, in the year 2000 alone, gave nearly half a million dollars to [...] two organizations promoting special group journalists.The results have paid off, as this book shows in case after case. The bottom line is that what you are reading in the mainstream press and seeing on the TV news shows is only one side of a number of complex issues. All events that tend to cause doubt of the prevailing dogma simply are not reported.To find what is actually going on in America today, read While America Sleeps: How Islam, Immigration and Indoctrination are Destroying America from Within. A large part of why America is "sleeping" is that people are not getting information from the ideologically committed American press.
Though this book condemns mainstream American journalism for its overwhelmingly superficial and one-sided reporting on crucial current social issues -- immigration, "diversity," gay rights and feminism, etc -- it won the 2002 National Press Club Award for press coverage. Black and Hispanic NPC members squawked loudly, of course, but for once good sense prevailed and they were overruled. Thus nobody can justifiably damn the book for being inaccurate; it's vetted by the author's most knowledgeable peers.McGowan skewers the NY Times and other major papers with his analysis of case after case of failed reporting, heavily biased in favor of this or that minority special-interest group and ignoring the point of view of mainstream Americans. What's most interesting is his explanation of Why.Like Bernard Goldberg's books "Bias" and "Arrogance," he points out that about 90 percent of our journalists are liberal to left-liberal in their outlook and thus naturally sympathetic to those presenting themselves as downtrodden victims. Another component preventing balanced journalism is the immediate backlash and pressure a reporter can surely expect from the minorities who will be mightily offended at any questioning of their propaganda. McGowan mentions more than one reporter who lost his job within days of writing an honest story about immigrants or the like. The special interest lobbies showed up in the editor's offices and got the writers fired. This is how democracy works today.The most surprising revelation to the journalistic outsider is the pressures within the newsroom itself. The writer must deal with editor expectations -- and the editor may have a fiat to promote only minority reporters who write certain kinds of stories. An editor will often kill a story if it doesn't fit the party line on high. And the reporter can expect flak from minority colleagues -- black, Hispanic, feminist, gay, whatever -- if it violates their thin-skinned sensibilities, even if the reporter is a member of that group him/herself. Ostracism from one's own minority social group can quickly ensue after the wrong slant to a story. So even the honest reporter will often (usually?) chicken out and write something politically correct. Traditionally the journalist is supposed to be skeptical of his sources, since most may try to give their own self-serving spin. Not any more, it seems, if the source comes from the victim class.Ultimately, McGowan finds, the rush to force diversity on the journalism profession, from within and without, has led to a corruption of the very goals of diversity to which he himself openly subscribes. Yet the press is one of the primary guardians of our society. If the press is corrupt, ... draw your own conclusions.McGowan has another book coming soon ("Gray Lady Down"), focusing on the New York Times and the Jayson Blair scandal. I learned a great deal from "Coloring," and am anxious to see what new revelations this very honest and distinguished journalist has for us.
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