{"id":110,"date":"2003-05-12T06:02:25","date_gmt":"2003-05-12T14:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2003\/05\/12\/blame-affirmative-action\/"},"modified":"2003-05-12T06:02:25","modified_gmt":"2003-05-12T14:02:25","slug":"blame-affirmative-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=110","title":{"rendered":"Blame Affirmative Action!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calpundit has a couple of excellent posts about Jayson Blair, the black <em>New York Times<\/em> reporter who was caught making up stories and plagerizing. Many folks, both in the media and in the blogosphere, have siezed on this story as a cautionary tale about affirmative action, or diversity, or hiring black folks, or whatever. From <a hef=\"http:\/\/www.calpundit.com\/archives\/001200.html\">Calpundit<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"snip\">In just the last few weeks, in addition to the Blair meltdown, the LA Times has fired a photographer for digitally enhancing a photograph, two reporters at the Salt Lake City Tribune have been fired for selling made-up rumors to the National Enquirer, and disgraced liar Stephen Glass released his autobiographical novel about his exploits at the New Republic.<\/p>\n<p>Quick, what color were the skins of these reporters?<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s that, you don&#8217;t know? But hasn&#8217;t every story about them mentioned it? And run a picture of them? No? That&#8217;s odd.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>You should also read Kevin&#8217;s very practical <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calpundit.com\/archives\/001209.html\">follow-up.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/atrios.blogspot.com\/\">Atrios<\/a>, in a post succinctly entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/atrios.blogspot.com\/2003_05_11_atrios_archive.html#200273973\">&#8220;Bigots,&#8221;<\/a> writes: &#8220;The difference it seems, is that the white people get promoted.&#8221;<a style=\"text-decoration:none\" href=\"\/index.php?p=prix-deltasone-5-pharmacie\">.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calpundit has a couple of excellent posts about Jayson Blair, the black New York Times reporter who was caught making up stories and plagerizing. Many folks, both in the media and in the blogosphere, have siezed on this story as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=110\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affirmative-action","category-race-racism-and-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}