Efforts to push out media bosses in America are not running out of steam
, was barred from covering the protests against racist policing on June 1st because editors claimed that she had displayed bias. Her offence? Firing off a sardonic tweet comparing the aftermath of looting to that of a tailgate gathering outside a country-music concert. Outrage mounted when colleagues who rallied to her side—including Michael Santiago, a Pulitzer prize-winning photojournalist—were deemed ineligible to cover the protests, too.
As with the #MeToo movement, executives find themselves taken to task on two counts. One is what are deemed to be blatant examples of prejudice, like dubious Halloween costumes or unexplained inequities in minority pay. The other is insufficient minority representation, whether in organisations’ newsrooms or in their pages. On that score few media outlets measure up. Elite newsrooms are much whiter than the population.
Non-white bosses are just as rare in the boardrooms of America’s largest companies, which are experiencing rumbles but fewer signs of insurrection than media firms. The incidents there have been more isolated: the former head of diversity at Morgan Stanley is suing the bank over alleged racial bias. The difference might be that nearly 80% of American journalists identify themselves as liberal .
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