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Trust in journalism, television and the news has never been lower, especially among Republicans and independents. And now for the good news -

"And distrust in traditional institutions could force them to reckon with institutional problems, like a lack of diversity."

I don't even know what to say, I'm shocked by the complete lack of self introspection.

Even three lines up we have -

"Data and experts suggest the public struggles to distinguish fact-based journalism from opinion content online."

So I guess a gay black man would be able to somehow report facts better? The entire article is baffling.

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>"And distrust in traditional institutions could force them to reckon with institutional problems, like a lack of diversity."

>I don't even know what to say, I'm shocked by the complete lack of self introspection.

My "favorite" example of this, from CNN before COVID19 became a worldwide problem: "Coronavirus task force another example of Trump administration's lack of diversity" <https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/30/politics/donald-trump-coronav...>

I think you missed the point: How many gay black men own news institutions, or run them?

When someone says "an institution needs more diversity" they mean that given two people for any job in the industry the minority should be chosen for diversities sake. They want women, homosexuals, and ethnic minorities and religious minorities to be more qualified for available jobs for the sake of being rarer, as opposed to true equality. It's nonsense. And I say this as a weird person - me being weird shouldn't make me more qualified for any job in which my weirdness is orthogonal - nor should any non-job related uniqueness qualify anyone else.

There are too few (good) jobs and too many qualified people, so it's a kind of gatekeeping. College is similar for the most part, but they do you the favor of teaching you something (while fleecing you at the same time, but that's another issue).

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