has this problem, even though journalism is supposedly so enlightened and leftist generally, so it's not just the blogosphere much less one corner of it that should concern those who rant over such mis-models.

Not that I think ranting will help, but at least that larger perspective is something to add to the script, if documenting the larger need for meaningful reform is really the cause at hand?

Maybe try Columbia Journalism Review and/or the Society of American Newspaper Editors to start, and books like this?

And there are reports such as "Unfettered Press: Minorities in Journalism" (I can save you the trouble of looking; blacks are about five percent, it says) and "http://www.namic.com/">NAMIC: Empowering Today's Multi-ethnic Diversity in Communications"

But then why stop with black journalists, either? What about professors and teachers of journalism, indeed all professors and teachers, period? They influence everything about our cultural identity one way or another, as does religion. What percentage of Catholics are bending black knees? Hmmm, that shouldn't be hard to Google either . . .

I have my own misrepresentation madness to rant about, being Southern and so backward and all. Here's a new think piece from Bob Moser of the Nation on that:

The "notion that the South is more than just 'different,' that it is distinct from the rest of the nation ... an inexplicable variant from the national norm," is a false exaggeration, wrote Zinn, that "feeds self-righteousness in the North ... And it stands so firmly and so high on a ledge of truth that one must strain to see the glitter of deception in its eye." . . .
By the 2032 elections, the South is expected to control almost 40 percent of the electoral votes for President -- more than the shrinking Northeast and Midwest combined.

And yet a stubborn belief in the poor, backward, reactionary cracker South of myth still shapes and distorts American politics. By surrendering the region, Democrats have simultaneously abandoned the old hope of a durable national progressive majority.