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Robert C. Maynard, an editorial writer for The Washington Post, told a group of 25 in a Nieman Foundation Seminar yesterday that journalism discriminates against women and minority group members more than almost any other profession...
...Maynard, a past member of the Nieman Selection Committee and a panelist in the second Ford-Carter debate, said only about 1 per cent of journalists on the major newspapers in the United States are either members of minority groups or women, while 3 per cent of doctors and lawyers are members of those groups...
...firing practices of local American papers represents a major cause for the low minority hiring rate of the larger national newspapers, Maynard said. The local papers, which serve as steppingstones to jobs on larger papers, hire virtually no minority group members or women, thus limiting their representation on the larger papers, he said...
February 23 is a good date to remember. That's when Maynard Ferguson and Ramsey Lewis (of Hang on Sloopy and In-Crowd fame, although he might deny it nowadays) move into the Music Hall for an 8 p.m. concert. I caught Ferguson at Brandy's Wharf a few years ago, and, sorry to say, he has lost a step or two since his days with Max Roach. The 50s were Fergie's hey-days. But his trumpet still has an inordinate amount of funk and the combination of Lewis and Ferguson make a viable Wednesday evening...
...Evening of Folk Music, featuring your old favorites Joanne Bronfman (Seagram's heiress?) and Neal Macmillan will be presented at Myron's Coffee House in Maynard on January 21 at 8:30 pm. If you leave Marshfield right after the Sour Mash Boys finish their first set, you'll make it to Maynard just in time...