AA? What AA? After 25 years of trying, US media still fails diversity test

[Tingkai]

A study by the Boston Globe has found that the US newspaper are still predominately white, even in communities with large non-white populations.

http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/101/business/Newspapers_fall_short_of_diversity_goal+.shtml

(The story includes lists of newspapers and diversity score)

This story shows that as much as companies talk about affirmative action, most companies fail to do anything about it. As well, it puts to rest the idea that the playing field is level in the United States, that whites are being deprived of jobs, or that the US no longer needs AA.


"If newspapers are a mirror that a community holds up to itself, the reflection is mostly white."

" Only because payrolls shrank in the recession, with more white journalists taking buyouts, did the percentage of minorities in newsrooms increase to 12 percent, compared with 31 percent of the US population. Nearly half of the nation's newspapers employ no minority reporters, editors, artists, or photographers."

This failure is all the more striking given that 25 years ago the American Society of Newspaper Editors set a goal of having their newsrooms as diverse as the communites served by the newspaper.

"The 1,448 daily papers include 125 that meet or exceed their community's minority diversity; 216 that are at least halfway to parity; 285 that employ some minorities but are less than halfway to the goal; 530 that reported no minority journalists on their latest survey; and 292 newspapers that won't say."

[Asher]

Affirmative Action: Reverse Racism at its finest.

[loinburger]

Re: AA? What AA? After 25 years of trying, US media still fails diversity test

Originally posted by Tingkai
This story shows that as much as companies talk about affirmative action, most companies fail to do anything about it.

By "companies," do you mean "newspaper companies", or do you mean "all companies"?

As well, it puts to rest the idea that the playing field is level in the United States, that whites are being deprived of jobs, or that the US no longer needs AA.

So the fact that one industry hasn't diversified proves that all industries haven't diversified? You seem to be using an awfully large brush here...

[Asher]

The Canadian Government still rigorously applies "minority quotas" to its workforce. It's gotten so ridiculous with so many minorities that it's almost making white people themselves a minority within the government jobs.

Take one look at the CBC and you'll see what I mean.
Or if you ever have to negotiate with provinces as a business the chances of talking to a white person are virtually nill.

Affirmative Action and minority quotas are nothing but racism. I think we've progressed to the point where nobody cares what color your skin is when you apply for the job, as long as you do the job as per its description.

Putting in less qualified people on the basis of meeting a quota is shameful to everyone involved.

[Tingkai]

Originally posted by Asher
The Canadian Government still rigorously applies "minority quotas" to its workforce. It's gotten so ridiculous with so many minorities that it's almost making white people themselves a minority within the government jobs.

Do you have any stats to back up your wild statements?

The Canadian gov't AA system only requires companies to report the diversity make up of their employees. If they don't report, the companies can't get contracts to work for the government. If they do report, and even if their workforce is 100 per cent of one group, they can stil get federal contracts.

[Tingkai]

Re: Re: AA? What AA? After 25 years of trying, US media still fails diversity test

Originally posted by loinburger
So the fact that one industry hasn't diversified proves that all industries haven't diversified? You seem to be using an awfully large brush here...

It is one industry within the US and it is an example of how industry leaders often talk about affirmative action and yet do not walk the talk.

[Dis]

Is this good or bad?

[Asher]

No, I don't have any stats to back up my "wild" statements, just eyes and experience.

And I'm not talking about simple crown corporation-type government, I'm talking actual government employees.

I've seen pictures from negotiations my dad had with the governments of Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and Alberta. Literally zero white people on the government's end of the table, many of them were native, and the others other assorted minorities. Some quick mental math tells you that this is some freak statistical anomalie in three provinces in a row, or the government's minority quotas are insane.

[Sprayber]

Is this White people's fault? Or is it the Jews that control the media?



(I just found out today that the Jews control US media. So it must be their fault.)

[Tingkai]

Originally posted by Asher
No, I don't have any stats to back up my "wild" statements, just eyes and experience.

And I'm not talking about simple crown corporation-type government, I'm talking actual government employees.

I've seen pictures from negotiations my dad had with the governments of Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and Alberta. Literally zero white people on the government's end of the table, many of them were native, and the others other assorted minorities. Some quick mental math tells you that this is some freak statistical anomalie in three provinces in a row, or the government's minority quotas are insane.

Sometimes you can't rely on your own experiences.

In a 2000 report, 5.9 per cent of the Canadian public service were visible minorities in 1999. Visible minorities made up 8.7 per cent of the Canadian labour market that year.

http://www.psc-cfp.gc.ca/research/demographics/communities/visible_demo_e.htm

I'd say that proves you're way off the mark when you claim that:"It's gotten so ridiculous with so many minorities that it's almost making white people themselves a minority within the government jobs."

Whites still make up 94 per cent of the public service so they're hardly a minority.

[Asher]

That's weird.
In my area I'm a visible minority as a white male.

Maybe the Federal statistics are very skewed by Ontario?

Because in Alberta and BC, at least, the percentage of "visible minority" is WAY higher than 8.7% of the labour market.

Something's extremely fishy about that report.

How did they define visible minority?

And anyone who takes Calgary Transit will tell you that the majority of bus drivers are certainly not white either. I'm having a really hard time believing anyting in that report, because everything I've seen comes nowhere close to matching their numbers.

[Asher]

This is probably why the numbers are extremely misleading:

A major barrier to increased representation public service wide, is that some of the largest departments have among the lowest representation...