The Evidence of Things Not Seen (Jayson Blair, Forced "Diversity," and Suppressed Data)

The Wall Street Journal ^ | May 16, 2003 | Chetly Zarko

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The New York Times' Jayson Blair, an individual reporter given to fabrication, was also, alas, a member of a group -- a favored group, if we are to believe the Times' boasts about its efforts to achieve "diversity" in its newsroom. For better or worse, diversity policy has become part of the Blair controversy. It is also something on which the Supreme Court is about to rule.

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Schadenfreude

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[martin_fierro]

The modern idea of diversity, of course, was given its first big push into the culture not in corporate hiring and promotion but in university admissions, where the 1978 Bakke decision (438 U.S. 265; 98 S. Ct. 2733, 57 L. Ed. 2d 750) enshrined both the word and the practice.

What ever became of the five black applicants with lower scores than Allan Bakke who were admitted to UC Davis medical school? Here's the story of one of them.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

IMO, when anyone tells me that I can't see the raw data, and that I should trust their executive summary, I take that as sufficient evidence that they're trying to BS me.