Daily Howler - April 13, 2005

KRISTOF CORRUPTED! Kristof and his cohort will lie until liberals and Dems make them stop:

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 2005

KRISTOF CORRUPTED: For the record, there are things we agree with—or may agree with—in Nicholas Kristof’s boo-hooing lament. For example, this claim may be accurate:

KRISTOF (4/12/05): We also need more diverse newsrooms. When America was struck by race riots in the late 1960's, major news organizations realized too late that their failure to hire black reporters had impaired their ability to cover America. In the same way, our failure to hire more red state evangelicals limits our understanding of and ability to cover America today.

It’s possible: Some newspaper might do better work if it employed more “red state evangelicals.” (We note that Kristof, like other Bernie Goldberg-style analysts, doesn’t show an actual problem with current religious coverage.)