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To: PartyTime who wrote (48703)	10/18/2000 6:39:00 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Do you think it's right that those who own America's major media institutions are all white well-to-do type folk... Of course it's right. Why would you ask such a silly question?

To: PartyTime who wrote (48703)	10/18/2000 7:00:39 PM
From: Ish	Respond to of 769670

<<My anecdote was rather interesting and very telling, wasn't it? >> Davidkarasick has already stated anecdotes don't count here.

To: PartyTime who wrote (48703)	10/19/2000 12:21:49 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Actually, I have no presuppositions about the racial characteristics pertinent to ownership. I do think that editorial diversity is a desideratum, but, again, I do not think that blackness or latinoness are genetic "essences", and it is likely that those who qualify for positions of responsibility will be relatively culturally assimilated. We do not consider it necessary to have all possible points of view institutionally represented, or we would reserve spots for black conservatives, Hasidim, Italians from Brooklyn and Poles from Chicago, and all possible variations. It is also potentially as demeaning to have an editor to represent the "black community" as it was to have women as society page editors. Why couldn't one have a black economics editor who never uttered a word on specifically black issues? Therefore, I think that reasonable diversity in the newsroom is desirable, but not necessary........