Freedom is Knowledge

It looks like the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) wants newspapers to discriminate against people of religion for being hired as journalists. Here is copy from their actual diversity mission statement found on the URL <http://www.asne.org/index.cfm?id=1669> on 12/06/04 at 5:40 P.M., EST, leaving this issue at best in as part of a watered down statement as "other defining characteristics." People of faith should be highly offended by this statement from the ASNE, treating religion as an afterthought, if they meant it to be included at all:

"ASNE has adopted the following mission statement on newsroom diversity:

To cover communities fully, to carry out their role in a democracy, and to succeed in the marketplace, the nation’s newsrooms must reflect the racial diversity of American society by 2025 or sooner. At a minimum, all newspapers should employ journalists of color and every newspaper should reflect the diversity of its community.

The newsroom must be a place in which all employees contribute their full potential, regardless of race, ethnicity, color, age, gender, sexual orientation, physical ability or other defining characteristic."

 

Click here to view the current URL to the ASNE Web site where they provided their Mission Statement on Diversity hiring recommendation for the nation's newspapers.