"The biggest flaw in mainstream journalism today is the lack of diversity."

Yesterday's column by John Leo hits the Roanoke Times nail right on the head.

I once complained to an important news executive that he ignored certain kinds of stories. He said that he would like to do them but that his staff wouldn’t let him. He admitted his staff had been assembled from one side—guess which?—of the political spectrum. This conversation hardened my conviction that the biggest flaw in mainstream journalism today is the lack of diversity.

(Yes, I know Tommy Denton served in Vietnam, but Leo's comments with regard to groupthink and lack of diversity are dead-on.)

Read the whole thing.