One of the cornerstones of leftist power in America is its domination of journalism. Long gone are the days of objective, factual reporting. Most of today’s journalists are true believers in “progressivism” and want to do their utmost to make sure that everyone else will be too.
And now, it’s not enough that budding journalists believe in Big Government; they must also believe in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, a farrago of notions relating to race and oppression. The incoming dean at the UNC School of Journalism, Raul Reis, is determined to reshape his school to embrace DEI, and in today’s Martin Center article, Shannon Watkins writes about this.
Watkins writes, “The plan is far-reaching and aspires to entrench DEI at every level of the school, from student and faculty behavior to the curriculum and community. The overarching goal is to ‘widen and deepen’ the school’s commitment to DEI. Unsurprisingly, it shares many similarities with the plan Reis oversaw during his tenure at Emerson University.”
This isn’t about journalistic excellence or even competence — it’s about expanding the reach of leftist mind control.
One aspect of this new push is that the accrediting body for journalism schools was unhappy with UNC for not having given Nikole Hannah-Jones everything she wanted when she was under consideration for a tenured faculty position at UNC. So now UNC feels the need to go to the nth degree of wokeness to get back in the good graces of this useless body.
Watkins continues, “By overtly seeking to embed DEI throughout the School of Journalism, Reis and his colleagues are showing anything but ‘restraint.’ ‘Diversity, equity, and inclusion’ might sound innocuous— indeed, even laudable—but the notions underlying the phrase are deeply politicized, divisive, and hostile to the cherished American values of equal opportunity and freedom of thought.”
Like so many other big universities, UNC is almost entirely in the grip of ideologues who don’t really care about education, but only about indoctrination.