How the Media Promote White Supremacy

Discourses of Domination: Racial Bias in the Canadian English-Language Press comes to an alarming conclusion in the final paragraph:

This study reveals a profound tension in Canadian society: a conflict between the belief that the media are the cornerstone of a democratic liberal society and the key instrument by which its ideals are produced and disseminated, and the actual role of the media as purveyors of racialized discourse, supporters of a powerful White political, economic, and cultural elite, and the vehicle for reinforcing racism [in] Canadian society.

Can it be so? Have I really spent most of my life as a journalist promoting racism? I will confess to working for—“supporting” goes too far—the famous, or infamous, elite of businessmen who own much of the media, because that is the way things work in a democracy, where the alternative is state control. But I will not confess to racism, even...