September 15, 2005

Reporting On Race

Jay Nordlinger prints an email he got in his column on National Review Online

Jay,

Why is it that everything has to be racialized? Here's the headline over an Associated Press story: "Texas Black Woman Scheduled for Execution." "Texas Black Woman"? Why not just "Texas Woman"? She murdered her family. What does her race have to do with it?

LA Times Poised to Get Worse - Bet You Didn't Think It Was Possible.

Southern California-based journalist Dan Sheehy sent me the following item.

Sheehy is the author of

Jesse Jackson On Illegal Immigration

"President Bush characteristically issued an executive order effectively lowering the wages of reconstruction workers -- and hiking the profits of their companies. He wiped out the requirement to pay prevailing wages in the disaster region, apparently thinking that $9 an hour for construction workers was too high a price to pay. The government can save money, no doubt, by exploiting illegal immigrant labor."

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