A Backlash Running Ahead of Schedule
Fenton, James, The Independent (London, England)
A row has developed between the Washington Post and the New Republic over an article run by the latter in its latest issue. The theme of the article, by a young journalist called Ruth Shalit, is the alleged "rising tide of racial prejudice washing over America's newsrooms", much of which, according to Shalit, "seems to be caused less by old-fashioned bigotry than by a sort of post-affirmative action racism".
In other words, if white male newsmen are angry today, it is not because they are racist in the old sense (not wanting to share space with blacks) but in a new post-affirmative action sense (not wanting to share space with blacks). The old bigotry was based on …
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Article title: A Backlash Running Ahead of Schedule.
Contributors: Fenton, James - Author.
Newspaper title: The Independent (London, England).
Publication date: September 25, 1995.
Page number: 15.
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