Alex Pagliuca

We have been told, all of our lives, that the people who are in the positions of leadership in institutions like media are there because they are the most qualified, most experienced and most able. The inability to learn this very obvious lesson suggests otherwise.

NPR recently reposted a piece from May that accompanied a segment of All Things Considered. It’s a piece in what has become a genre in our news. It concerns people refusing to date outside of their personal political affinities. For a number of years now, we’ve been seeing these pieces with some reg