William McGowan

William McGowan argues in the following viewpoint that efforts by newspapers and other media organizations to promote affirmative action and racial and ethnic diversity have been made at the expense of traditional journalistic values such as honesty and objectivity. The media have become overly sensitive on the issue of race and now treat certain minority groups such as homosexuals preferentially, he contends. In consequence, there has been a decline in public trust of the media and a failure by the media to adequately cover certain controversial topics, such as black-on-black crime. McGowan, a former reporter for Newsweek and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), is the author of the book Coloring the News: How Crusading for Diversity Has Corrupted American Journalism.

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