We tend to move along the easiest line and not to confront the problem. And, he added, to shift the responsibility. They can advocate educational opportunity. Improving schools, he said, would simultaneously solve the problems of education and race. In addition to self-examination, which you clearly are engaged in, there is the examination of the community, of activities and institutions in the community, which can achieve a great deal.
Editors can strive for diversity in their newspapers contents.
ASNE s board, in its new proposed goal, said content diversity should be a core value of journalism. Franklin called it a responsibility. Black newspapers arose in the 1800s, and thrived for more than a century, he said, because white newspapers largely ignored African-Americans. Later, when the majority press began to tell the stories of blacks in America, the black press began to shrink. Despite the urgency of the diversity debate at the convention, Franklin spoke to a half-empty room.