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I really don't think that many editors and publishers allow their reporters to do real spade work re reporting any more.

Any so called spade work is an interview with 12 illegal alien families about how hard it is to be on welfare, MediCal and food stamps in Kalifornia and be objects of finger pointing.

Dave Berry has a really funny book about a reporter who gets fired for wanting to do real reporting instead of coming up with the pro diversity sob stories for the Politically Correct newspaper he worked for. The newspaper was not interested in murder, mob violence and hired killers. (I can't remember the name of the book, but it is a riot for a conservative to read).

We know a professional photographer who retired after decades of being photographer for a newspaper that turned into a left wing maggot fishwrap in the last 10 years.

He was not allowed to take a picture of any criminal arrested unless he was white and mean a$$ed ugly white. They did not want pictures of new Churches being built or renovated. His last two years, he was told no pictures of Christian Churches during Christmas or Easter as these pictures offended the non Christians. Kwanza and whatever as long as it was not Christian or Jewish photos in December were in demand.

Any picture of a car wreck where people were injured or killed by an illegal alien driving often without even a phoney driver's license were not allowed.

Any renta mob picture or group of homosexuals protesting or at a meeting had to be postioned so that a few looked like a lot.

If one of the local highshools had a great male football or basketball team, they limited him to one shot per week, and it there was a minority playing, he was the centerpiece of photos. He had a quota of 3-5 pictures per week of various women atheletes in action. So he spent a lot of time at volleyball games.

So when he could retire, he jumped at the chance. He said that he was just the tip of the iceberg re political correctness and the worship of diversity versus news.

Hey, Grampa Dave, didn't I just run into you at the Iraqi thread?

Thanks for the background. Presently, I'm reading William McGowan's book, Coloring the News: How Crusading for Diversity Has Corrupted American Journalism, which details how major papers (and in some cases, TV) -- in particular, the New York Times, Washington Post, and L.A. Times -- have variously ignored or misrepresented stories on race, sex, and immigration. One-third of the way through, I have not seen any discussion of photo quotas, or of the responsibility of "J-schools" for the present impasse. So, while McGowan does an excellent job of showing how the major dailies misreport big stories, the crisis runs much deeper.