The Inquirer's look at itself ignores the paper's history of exposing racial injustice, writes Huntly Collins, who spent more than four decades in journalism including 18 years at The Inquirer.
. Ironically, Marimow’s reporting exposed the very kind of policing problems that, decades later, would lead to the Black Lives Matter movement. Although Marimow, The Inquirer’s former chief editor, was interviewed twice for the story, none of his observations were included in the piece.
Despite the enormous space devoted to “Black Lives, White Paper,” the story reported little that was new, but it did expose two previously unreported examples of deeply offensive racial name-calling by desk editors. One Black reporter was called “boy” and another “Aunt Jemima.” These odious remarks were made decades ago and each was an isolated incident. But they were presented in a way that gave the misimpression that racist rhetoric characterized prevailing culture in The Inquirer newsroom.
At the same time, The Inquirer’s lengthy take-out failed to make any mention of The Inquirer’s sister paper, the Philadelphia Daily News, whose mission was always to focus on the city, not the suburbs, and whose stories took readers inside the daily lives of city residents of every color, including those of African heritage.
Taken together, these reporting problems turn what might have been a thoughtful analysis of a critically important topic into a biased screed that presents a distorted portrait of a newspaper that has served the Black community in myriad ways including as a watchdog to hold the police and other city institutions accountable for racial discrimination.
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