RICHARD PRINCE:
Well, since that time, there was a great push, as you say, after the Kerner Commission report of 1968.
All through the '70s, diversity was a great buzzword. And then in the '80s, you started getting a backlash to affirmative action and that kind of thing. Then you had the recession, which meant that newsrooms had to sort of tighten up and not hire as many people, start laying people off, and the Internet, which made things worse, because it took away a lot of the revenue base of newspapers particularly.
And so diversity sort of went off the table. And so now we are sort of in a stagnant situation, where the — I think of newspapers, for example, and online outlets. We have 13 percent of the newsrooms now are people of color, whereas the population has a third people of color.
ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7sa7SZ6arn1%2Bjsri%2Fx6isq2ejnby4e9ahmK1lo6muqLrAp6tmnJmrsrO%2FyK2wZqWVlru0ecWoqWaZnZq%2Fqq%2FArGSnnaeov7C7zKw%3D