Rating: 
Summary: Eloquent and Very Well Researched!
Review: William McGowan's "Coloring the News" places the mainstream media under a microscope analyzing the claims that "diversity" in the newsroom will improve news coverage and inform the public to a greater degree. McGowan demonstrates that not only has news not improved, but reporters have deliberately avoided covering uncomfortable and inconvenient aspects of many stories for fear of "stereotyping" or "offending." The result is a consistently sanitized and skewed version of events. McGowan makes clear "diversity" of viewpoint is significantly more important in a newsroom that skin color or gender, yet newsrooms, in employing more minorities and systematically excluding white males, and solidified the liberal ideological grip on news coverage. Ironically, in the quest for "diversity" there has been much less presentation of different viewpoints, especially conservative or Christian views. The unintended effect of all this has been a mass fleeing from the networks to other sources of news such as radio and the internet which atleast give some validity to the conservative viewpoint.Highly recommended.
Rating:
Summary: Eloquent and Very Well Researched!
Review: William McGowan's "Coloring the News" places the mainstream media under a microscope analyzing the claims that "diversity" in the newsroom will improve news coverage and inform the public to a greater degree. McGowan demonstrates that not only has news not improved, but reporters have deliberately avoided covering uncomfortable and inconvenient aspects of many stories for fear of "stereotyping" or "offending." The result is a consistently sanitized and skewed version of events. McGowan makes clear "diversity" of viewpoint is significantly more important in a newsroom that skin color or gender, yet newsrooms, in employing more minorities and systematically excluding white males, and solidified the liberal ideological grip on news coverage. Ironically, in the quest for "diversity" there has been much less presentation of different viewpoints, especially conservative or Christian views. The unintended effect of all this has been a mass fleeing from the networks to other sources of news such as radio and the internet which atleast give some validity to the conservative viewpoint. Highly recommended.
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