The left-wing bias permeating legacy media coverage may be coming from the top, and there are plenty of examples of such dynamics, even in the Lone Star State.
Take Texas Monthly editor-in-chief Dan Goodgame, for instance. He was a speaker at From Day One’s conference in Austin in 2022.
“The event will focus on such topics as creating equity in a hybrid workplace, balancing productivity with well-being, offering better career paths, developing diversity in leadership, and supporting working parents. Among the timely questions: How can companies stay true to their core values and accountable to their stakeholders, while making enormous changes?” the conference website states.
Goodgame and Vanice Hayes, Dell’s chief of culture, diversity, and inclusion, spoke at the conference during a panel session titled “Creating a Culture of Belonging in a Tech-Based Workplace.”
The pair discussed how to foster “inclusion” without losing productivity in an era of remote and hybrid work.
“Enabling that choice is really, really important not only to people of color, but we’re finding it’s true for our team members that are part of the LGBTQIA+ community or team members with disabilities,” Hayes said.
“Being hybrid has really helped us attract people that we might not have ever been able to meet before,” Hayes added.
According to the From Day One website, the conference featured a number of speakers with DEI-focused backgrounds, such as Kazique Jelani Prince, the global director of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging for National Instruments, and Chinyere Ananwu, the director of organizational development and culture at CPS Energy.
The Dallas Express reached out to Dan Goodgame for comment but did not receive a response by publication.
As previously reported by DX, The Dallas Morning News also has a track record of emphasizing DEI in its operations and coverage partnerships. Additionally, its public editor wrote an op-ed acknowledging its the outlet’s coverage was biased in favor of left-wing positions.