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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAt Elite Media, ‘Scientific’ Racists Fit in Fine
http://fair.org/extra-online-articles/at-elite-media-scientific-racists-fit-in-fine/Posted by FAIR
Nicholas Wade was a leading New York Times science writer for three decades, at one point the editor of the Science Times section. He retired from full-time work at the paper in 2012, and in May 2014 published A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History, a book that has been described as a full-throated defense of scientific racism (New Statesman, 5/20/14). Wades embrace of the pseudoscience of eugenics raises questions about his tenure at the Times, and about corporate media vigilance when it comes to racism.
Media frequently fail to challenge racism in high places (FAIR Blog, 6/27/14)in part because some highly placed corporate media figures are themselves attracted to racialist ideologies. Extra! (4/05) documented this after New York Times columnists David Brooks (12/7/04) and John Tierney (10/24/04) approvingly cited the work of Steve Sailer, a central figure in the promotion of racist and anti-immigrant theories.
For his part, Brooks praised a Sailer article in the American Conservative (12/20/04) that celebrated white people who flouted the Western trend toward declining birth rates, having lots of children and leaving behind what Brooks called the disorder, vulgarity and danger of cities to move to clean, orderly suburban and exurban settings where they can protect their children from bad influences. Sailer himself made clear what those bad influences were, mentioning ghetto hellions, illegal immigrants and other poor minorities.
In 1994, when Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray published The Bell Curve, a book espousing the so-called academic racist theories that black people are inherently less intelligent and more prone to crime than whites or Asians, the New York Times Book Review (10/16/94) published a fawning, credulous review by Times science reporter Malcolm Browne.
The Times wasnt the only liberal outlet to praise a book that, according to co-author Murray (New York Times Magazine, 10/9/94), was largely based on sources so odious he would hide them from public view. The putatively liberal New Republic verily gushed over the book, with editor Andrew Sullivan dedicating an entire issue of the magazine (10/31/94) to it.
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At Elite Media, ‘Scientific’ Racists Fit in Fine (Original Post)
G_j
Sep 2014
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Charles Murray is a very good friend to former WI. Gov and Sec DHHS Tommy Thompson as well as
bobthedrummer
Sep 2014
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bobthedrummer
(26,083 posts)2. Charles Murray is a very good friend to former WI. Gov and Sec DHHS Tommy Thompson as well as
Gauleiter Scott Walker. Much of the promotion of this stealth eugenics/racist repackaging was funded from Milwaukee's fascist treasury-The Bradley Foundation--as Phil Wilayto documented in an April 2001 article below. Btw, the address is correct and works.
http://www.zcomm.org/zmagazine/the-bradley-foundation-by-phil-wilayto
G_j
(40,366 posts)3. good information
Eye opening... it's amazing how entrenched these racist ideas are.