MMMM # 587 --- Old Whites Only Newspapering (Up North no less)

     I subconsciously keep an eye on photos and video of groups of people, looking for patterns.
    For example, I've seen car company commercials in which there are as many as two dozen employees shown, and every one is white--- in a city that is majority black.
     And that's the first thing I thought about when I saw the collection of photos showing the way newspapers used to be produced. Here's the back-story of the photos:

Long before the age of computerized printing presses and journalists being able to file stories via computer, the process of creating the day’s newspaper was a much more arduous, hand-made process. In September 1942, Office of War Information photographer Marjory Collins paid a visit to the offices of the New York Times, located at the iconic One Times Square and an annex on 43rd Street.
There, she documented each step of the messy, physical process as news coming in over the wires was sorted, edited, rewritten, laid out, and printed, all under an ever-approaching deadline. The Thursday, Sept. 10, 1942 issue was dominated by news of fighting in Europe and the Pacific, as well as rationing and cutbacks on the home front (along with recaps of a Yankees victory over the Browns and horse races at the Aqueduct Racetrack).

Some of the photos of the New York Times being produced:

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/preparing-printing-new-york-times-1942/

No African-American employees at The New York Times in 1942? (Or should I call it The FAILING New York Times, a la Trump?)

     In 1940 the New York City Population was almost 94% white, but still? Not a single black employee visible in the production and editorial photos of The New York Times?

OK, it is not just the Times, Read this PEW study.

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