Re: Sept. 23 Ginsberg, Sugawara, Brack
Posted By: Phuong Ly
Date: 9/23/05 5:03:10 p.m. EDT

Re: the New Yorker story on Washingtonian. I found it offensive that Jeff Goldberg felt his career at the Post was "doomed by diversity" or so it said in the article.

Even more offensive was that an editor told him that they couldn't hire him b/c the slot had to go to a Hispanic. I hope this isn't happening here anymore. I don't think anything has made my blood boil recently as much as reading that comment. There are plenty of slots here at the Post and plenty of reasons why a person isn't hired (a hiring editor just simply making an idiotic decision could be one of them). If minorities were getting all the advantages, this paper would have looked a lot different a long time ago. There's a lot more I can say on this subject, of course, but my main hope is that the Post management addresses the comment in the Washingtonian article.