Keith Woods is Reporting, Writing & Editing Group Leader at the Poynter Institute, a leading journalism think tank. His article, “The Diversity Paradox,” reveals, occasionally intentionally, the doubts and shadows diversity casts over diversity appointments. (Link provided by reader Jerry Bledsoe.)
Woods, of course, tries to defend diversity, and he resists what he calls the “false dichotomy” of a “stark choice between perpetuating racism and lowering standards.” Along the way he, confusingly to my mind, criticizes a group of “black, Latino, Native American, Asian and white media managers
