Advantage - Blogging: Quicker Response/Fewer Words

March 12, 2014 - The Crack Emcee:

  Are any of those 19 people in the [FiveThirtyEight] "Clubhouse" black?

March 14, 2014 - ExMediaMan:

  "'Viral Media' is all White People. Sometimes sites let black journalists write for them, but they never really feel included." 

March 20, 2014 - The Root:

  The new-school white cats seem just as trapped in black-and-white Twilight Zone episodes as their old-school parents. Through all the hype of Ezra Klein leaving Washington Post’s WonkBlog to find his value with Vox Media and the public salivation that’s taken place over the rebirth of polling Yoda Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight (of which, I admit, I’ve always been a big fan since before it razed formulas at NYTimes.com), there hasn’t been any pop-culture quiz on why these new ventures insisted on being ultra-white. When Klein left WashPo, he took as many white dudes as he could ask; Silver is downright gangsta about it as he flashes the refreshed FiveThirtyEight.com like a renewed season of Entourage.

They aren’t the only ones,...