Stelter Calls for ‘Diversity in Media,’ But Not Conservative Thinkers

Nicholas Fondacaro | April 15, 2022
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On Friday’s edition of Reliable Sources Daily on CNN+, Brian Stelter wanted to talk about the “subject that affects every other subject: diversity in media.” But what he meant by “diversity” didn’t immediately include a diversity of ideology or thought, to include more conservative-minded people in the newsroom, but rather it was about race and alleged racial disparity in newsroom pay and opportunity.

“Diversifying newsrooms is a process that does not stop. We are better off when there are more voices from all backgrounds helping make the news. But newsrooms have struggled to get to where they need to be. It’s been a problem for years across the United States,” he lamented.

For his first point, Stelter cited numbers from The Washington Post Newspaper Guild that said “the median salaries for white men in the newsroom is $124,000. For black women, 24 percent less; that’s $95,000.”

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