McGowan,W. Coloring the News. 2003
McGowan, William. Coloring the News: How Political Correctness Has Corrupted
American Journalism. San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2003. 291 pages.
William McGowan is perhaps a conservative, judging from the fact that
he is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, but this book has nothing
to do with the liberal-conservative spectrum. Rather, it's about an issue
that turns conventional political labels upside down. This is the issue
of quotas, diversity, and political correctness. There aren't many topics
where yesterday's bleeding-heart liberals can become super-race-conscious
careerists, or where yesterday's property-rights libertarians can suddenly
sound like egalitarian crusaders.
This is a study of how political correctness has run amuck in America's
major newsrooms, by promoting the sort of spin that emphasizes diversity at
the expense of objectivity. It's important to note (and McGowan should have
investigated further), that this is not the result of pressure from below,
but rather pressure from above. It reminds us of that spooky cold warrior
McGeorge Bundy. After doing his best to eliminate the North Vietnamese
people and failing, Bundy became head of the "liberal" Ford Foundation and
started co-opting minorities with massive grants that promoted identity
politics. Bundy said he was "making the world safe for capitalism." McGowan
mentions the Ford Foundation in passing and he sort of smells a rat, but he
hasn't yet absorbed the big stink.
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