A kerfuffle broke out in California after Richard Riordan, the state’s secretary of education and a former Los Angeles mayor, made a stupid and rude comment to a little girl
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Assemblyman Mervyn Dymally “scheduled a protest by civil rights organizations. . . . Dymally was quoted in the San Jose Mercury News Thursday saying the child was ‘a little African-American girl. Would he (Riordan) have done that to a white girl?’ “
It turns out, however, that Isis is a person of pallor—indeed, a blonde.
Dymally, who had issued a statement Wednesday calling Riordan’s remark “outrageous and irresponsible,” put out another statement yesterday, saying, “To err is human; to forgive divine”:
“Race is not a factor in this issue,” Dymally said in Thursday’s statement, adding that Riordan had apologized a second time. “It is time for us to move on.”
Hopefully the voters in her district will move on.
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While acknowledging some risk of mismatching categories due to separate sources, it’s highly instructive to take the expenditures (in $m) by category and divide by the corresponding usage data. This will give an index of the relative costs of reaching an audience in the different media. This comes to roughly:Comparative costs per viewer-hourThe loser really sticks out, doesn’t it? Newspapers are way out of band on costs, and are flatlined or worse on their audience.
Cable TV 17 Radio 19 Internet 42 Network TV 55 Newspaper 250
Not that newspaper should or would compromise their coverage to appeal to readers! Journalists will sacrifice whatever readers it takes to be true to their beliefs.