NYTimes Op/Ed: Truth, Lies and Subtext

[theapportioner]

Minor point of correction: the executive editor is now Howell Raines, who, for the record only, is a white southerner.

Anyway, I don't have data on the diversity of the media wing of the NYTimes company, or of other journalistic entities, so I have no way of evaluating that part of the argument.

I do think that Herbert is right in pointing out that in the Raines fiasco, his "blackness" needlessly became part of the issue, whereas with the Barnicle disaster and most other scandals of journalistic fraud, it's always about integrity, more appropriately the failings thereof. As if we see blacks as "black individuals", and others as "individuals".