"I was tasked with covering the event for the Dallas Morning News, which was fine except for the fact that making these sorts of things seem at all interesting is like trying to draw people into C-SPAN (if C-SPAN were deeply unimportant rather than a primary document of our rapidly disintegrating nation, but I digress). "
Facts.
Further thoughts and how these issues are related:
We protect our own -- it's a shame in a space that should be creative. However, this isn't only a creative space -- it's business. Not that we don't talk about being one that regularly but we often hope that it isn't when we talk about the awards and new music and how we love something. And -- importantly -- the reason there is any DEI efforts underway in this corner of the industry is because it will yield a larger market. We also can hope they do it because they should -- but it isn't. We protect our own because that is what we do -- and this uniformity -- as sad and trite as it is -- is part of this protection.
"I was tasked with covering the event for the Dallas Morning News, which was fine except for the fact that making these sorts of things seem at all interesting is like trying to draw people into C-SPAN (if C-SPAN were deeply unimportant rather than a primary document of our rapidly disintegrating nation, but I digress). "
Facts.
Further thoughts and how these issues are related:
We protect our own -- it's a shame in a space that should be creative. However, this isn't only a creative space -- it's business. Not that we don't talk about being one that regularly but we often hope that it isn't when we talk about the awards and new music and how we love something. And -- importantly -- the reason there is any DEI efforts underway in this corner of the industry is because it will yield a larger market. We also can hope they do it because they should -- but it isn't. We protect our own because that is what we do -- and this uniformity -- as sad and trite as it is -- is part of this protection.