There’s no diversity like five white women
Local television news is a wasteland of crap, a random pile of shootings, traffic accidents, freaky weather, consumer alerts and medical breakthroughs. I always thought it just came with the territory, that it was an unavoidable part of its own DNA.
I was wrong.
There is somebody to blame.
Actually, there are five people to blame, namely the five women news directors who rule the six local TV-news operations in Boston. Thanks, ladies!
I guess I was wrong about something else as well. It’s not crap. It’s diversity:
“When you have diversity in the newsroom, you have diversity in the story lines,” said Maria Brennan of American Women in Radio and Television.
Right.
