The Best Person for the Job

The writer Howard French once said, “The importance of diversity in the media — as in other sectors of society — is not about scoring points in some imaginary scale of civic virtue. It has nothing to do with the granting of favours — or even concessions — by a white majority. It is akin to restoring vision to a creature with impaired sight, making it whole and allowing it to function at the full limits of its perceptive and analytical capacity. The majority cannot understand this — cannot realise that it is partly blind — because its own provincialism has persisted uninterrupted for so long.” You can…