All DEI has done is to create resentment in the workplace and elsewhere. Minorities are reminded to consider themselves victims. Others have to deal with workers (they believe) are given preferences, aren't really qualified or lack a work ethic. So workers resent other workers. Not bosses. Not owners. Not the one percenters. It's a time honored tactic. If regular people stop resenting each other, they are likely to start resenting people like Trump and Musk.
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PBS shuts down office focused on DEI initiatives
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There is no preference given to anyone as a result of DEI. There are no quotas. Quotas are illegal. If there's any resentment, it's caused by people who don't know what they're talking about. If regular people stop resenting each other, maybe they'll stop resenting Obama.
I worked at plenty of places where unqualified white people got promoted because they kissed the right backsides.
So far, I haven't seen any definition from facts of "DEI" that isn't basically recruitment and onboarding. I haven't seen a single example that forces (or credibly suggests that) people are being hired that aren't qualified to do the jobs they're hired for. And as I said above, plenty of unqualified people get hired for preferential reasons. I can point to numerous examples on air today, and they're using their platforms to rail against DEI. The irony.
Discrimination in hiring is illegal. Reaching out to a wider array of recruits to encourage diverse application pools, or initiatives to improve communication, understanding and tolerance in the workplace aren't illegal. And haven't we heard from conservatives that "the media" is so biased they should hire more conservatives or move studios to red states?
"DEI" is a nothing burger, unless you can prove to me that people are being hired strictly on the basis of race and aren't qualified to do their jobs. Otherwise, it's yet another three letter "culture war" piece of nonsense that spread thru the usual channels to be gobbled up by the gullible sorts who enrich grifters thinking that it's an act of patriotism.
So far, I haven't seen any definition from facts of "DEI" that isn't basically recruitment and onboarding. I haven't seen a single example that forces (or credibly suggests that) people are being hired that aren't qualified to do the jobs they're hired for. And as I said above, plenty of unqualified people get hired for preferential reasons. I can point to numerous examples on air today, and they're using their platforms to rail against DEI. The irony.
Discrimination in hiring is illegal. Reaching out to a wider array of recruits to encourage diverse application pools, or initiatives to improve communication, understanding and tolerance in the workplace aren't illegal. And haven't we heard from conservatives that "the media" is so biased they should hire more conservatives or move studios to red states?
"DEI" is a nothing burger, unless you can prove to me that people are being hired strictly on the basis of race and aren't qualified to do their jobs. Otherwise, it's yet another three letter "culture war" piece of nonsense that spread thru the usual channels to be gobbled up by the gullible sorts who enrich grifters thinking that it's an act of patriotism.
Quotas and preferences are not the same.
I didn't say they were.
The FCC had DEI and still concluded that minority ownership was basically unchanged.
FCC Reports Ongoing Lack of Diversity in Radio Ownership - Radio Ink
The FCC’s biennial report on broadcast station ownership highlights a persistent lack of diversity in radio.
radioink.com
Um, no.
Utter crap. Diversity, equity and inclusion has zero to do with victimhood. Nowhere in that “reminded” to anyone.
No. We get to work with people who represent a wide range of experiences and cultures. Who bring their own viewpoints and add valued context. Bigots who can’t understand that will continue to spout nonsense about preference when that has not a damn thing to do with it.
Racists and bigots do that.
Lying?
Crooks? No, we’ll always resent them.
And neither apply. Diversity, equity and inclusion is about removing barriers and creating actual opportunities. For far too long, insular cultures and biases meant in effect that people of different cultures and races need not apply. It was not, to be clear, the same as the literal signs from ages ago that said “Irish” (or other ethnic groups) “need not apply.” That does not make it any less real.
GBH is removing language related to DEI from its website, following Trump executive orders - The Boston Globe
President Trump has called for the end of public funding for PBS and NPR as he and his allies have accused the broadcasters of being too liberal.
www.bostonglobe.com
Now Boston PBS affiliate WGBH is one of the stations removing DEI. It's basically to match up with the mandates PBS has to follow.
Stations alter DEI statements in wake of Trump order, state laws - Current
The changes come on the heels of PBS closing its DEI office and dismissing two staffers.
current.org
Here are more stations removing DEI as part of a move to maintain their membership with PBS and NPR plus maintain CPB funding.
LGBTQ history videos find new home after PBS pulls content due to Trump executive orders - Current
New York City's Education Department has posted the videos on its own website.
current.org
Note the segments in question are about LGBTQ Civil Rights history that PBS station WNET made for the PBS TV app. Now they are being removed in response to Trump executive orders, defunding threats and the FCC "investigation". As seen here we don't know which PBS affiliates are directly having their licenses questioned but here we are.
Yet the issue there is not EEO or DEI. It is funding and the desire to own stations.
Since consolidation began, except for some Black, Hispanic and Asian folks who were already in "the game" there was little interest in owning stations in a world where clusters had a sales advantage. And in the last 15 years or so, most intelligent people would not enter the ownership fraternity (or sorority or whatever) because the could not see a future and could not find financing.
Trying to get minority groups into a business that nobody in their right mind wants to be part of today is a useless battle leading to a classic Pyrrhic victory.
And yet that's not what Tavis Smiley is doing. He's not the only one. But there aren't many.
The issue isn't who owns what. The issue is who controls the message. How many minorities are in control of the message? You don't have to own to have control. Ask Kendrick Lamar.
And how is he doing? No ratings (even in the subscriber data) and the station is just a horrible technical facility that would be better off closing.
Well, we have the Urban One group to start. While publicly owned, it is Black managed. And you have Entravision, Univision/Televisa, SBS and a number of smaller Hispanic broadcasters. But all got started before the "death of radio" became obvious.
That's not the point. DEI doesn't guarantee success. It just means you have access that might have been previously denied.
So he is reinventing AM radio in terms of how he uses it and finances it. Nothing wrong with that.
i don't see how DEI helped him buy the station. In fact, he still has not bought it after about 4 years of DEI. Yes, he took advantage of what seemed like a significant topic, but there are no listeners.
And he has invented a light bulb with spaghetti as the filament.
Here is the hearing where PBS and NPR CEO's are sent to congress over Doge. First of all theres a false allegation out there that PBS and NPR are "Communist". However we run into the same circle again about CPB's role in giving money to the local affiliates for news and documentaries operations.
Marjorie Taylor-Greene attacks NPR and PBS as ‘communist,’ calls for funding to ‘end’ - Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News
(CNN) — Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene on Wednesday used a DOGE subcommittee hearing to call for the defunding and dismantling of the company that provides NPR and<a class="excerpt-read-more"...
whdh.com
Once again, she can solve her problem by telling her governor to either sell or shut down the state-owned Georgia Public Broadcasting system. We shouldn't have to suffer because she doesn't like something. We pay taxes too.
She probably doesn't know what happened to the last repub congressman to call people communists. Have you no decency sir?
Meanwhile she quotes russian propaganda and wants to shut down the FBI.
She probably doesn't know what happened to the last repub congressman to call people communists. Have you no decency sir?
Meanwhile she quotes russian propaganda and wants to shut down the FBI.
We find the extremes of each party calling the extremes of the other one by kinda’ vile and exaggerated names. The extreme left calls ‘em “fascists” and the radical right uses “commies” to be both offensive and polarizing.
It doesn't matter. Only MAGAs count. The rest of us are Communists.
It doesn't matter. Be MAGA or be a non-person.
Umm how did congressman Brandon Gill determined that the content on PBS and NPR affiliates is Garbage. When we looked at the ratings on who listen to NPR and PBS in parts of Texas we saw data that showed that there are significant numbers of people listening to their local NPR affiliate.
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