Editors at the Washington Post (reg. req.) are clueless about why circulation is down. Did they come up with a plan to eradicate or at least control their leftist bias? No. That would be too easy. Instead, they settled on these:
1) Dumb it down:
In an effort to win new readers, Downie said Post reporters will be required to write shorter stories. The paper’s design and copy editors will be given more authority to make room for more photographs and graphics.
Great. Liberal bias with big pictures and small stories.
2) More skin-color diversity:
Washington Post Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr. met with hundreds of newsroom staffers yesterday to outline management’s latest attempts to combat declining circulation. However, the more intense discussion at the meeting involved diversity at the newspaper, as several minority staff members lamented that a white man recently was chosen over a woman and a black man as the paper’s new managing editor. [My emphasis
If Philip Bennett is more qualified, shouldn't he get the job? Are the blacks and women asserting he isn't? If so, it's a different story, but we all know that's not what's bothering them. Bennett is a white male. Whether he's the most qualified or not, his very presence (and skin color) makes him suspect.
In response to the whining, Downie was forced to give facts but couldn't resist seasoning them with politically correct mumbo jumbo: "[O]f the paper’s 30 to 40 top editors, ‘white males are in the minority.’ But he [Downie] said the paper needs to hire more minorities and to improve its coverage of the area’s increasingly diverse population.”
Can you guess which is fact and which is politically correct mumbo jumbo?
