A Word: No Whites Allowed?

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🗓️ 28 May 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, marking her second anniversary in office, would only grant one-on-one interviews to journalists of color. Lightfoot said she was highlighting a lack of media diversity. Critics call it racist. Could this policy change the status quo, or just be a distraction? Jason Johnson is joined by Errin Haines, editor-at-large of The 19th*, a non-profit news outlet focused on women. They discuss why too many urban newsrooms remain overwhelmingly white, and whether Lightfoot’s move was a step toward equality, or a political stunt. Podcast production by Ahyiana Angel and Jasmine Ellis You can skip all the ads in A Word by joining Slate Plus. Sign up now at slate.com/awordplus for just $1 for your first month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	This is a word, a podcast from Slate.
0:37.4	I'm your host, Jason Johnson.
0:39.6	Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot recently sparked a new skirmish in the Culture War.
0:44.2	She decided to grant the only one-on-one interviews about her anniversary in office with non-white
0:49.9	reporters.
0:51.2	We are a city that has almost three-quarters people of color.
0:55.7	I believe that the city hall press corps needs to reflect the diversity of our city.
1:01.1	So is this radical fairness, a political stunt, or both?
1:05.2	We'll dive in next on a word with me, Jason Johnson.
1:09.0	Stay with us.
1:12.0	Welcome to a word, a podcast about race, and politics, and everything else.
1:19.3	I'm your host, Jason Johnson.
1:21.2	Illinois politics, and especially Chicago politics, can be a rough business, where losers
1:26.5	can get regularly dragged, even all the way to prison, and winners can make it all the way
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