JUST SAYING
BY RAUL HERNANDEZ
“I can’t sugarcoat it anymore,” Lewis declared about the urgent changes needed in the Washington Post newsroom.
So, Lewis, hired from the Rupert Murdoch School of Journalism, decided that the solution to the Washington Post’s problems was to install a white management trifecta.
Lewis seems to want to recreate a Murdoch/Ailes version of the Washington Post, sidelining minorities in management.
Having spent three decades in four newsrooms in two states, I can attest that newspaper editors and publishers have always maintained that they have struggled to find “qualified” minorities.
However, they have consistently managed to elevate their incompetent white pals and corporate good old boys to managers and editors — the ranks of leadership.
I’ve had front-row seats to this incompetence, lack of creativity, managerial turf wars, and power trips.
This British import, Lewis, with his dubious past, and others like him have no understanding of the long-standing battles minorities have faced within the nation’s newsrooms.
Bezos and Lewis need to understand this history because minorities can’t continue to “sugarcoat” why diversity is crucial, especially in management.
And, quite frankly, using another American economic cliche and borrowing it from a U.S. Supreme Court decision, “Boycotts are as American as apple pie,” in other words, cancel my subscription.
A stampede of cancellations is on the horizon.