On Fairness and the Book Review

NPR's excellent "Tell Me More" program picks up on the story, discussed last week:

From January 2009 to February 2010, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) examined every politically-themed book that The New York Times Book Review critiqued. FAIR says 95 percent of US authors reviewed in the publication were white, and 87 percent were male. The pool of book REVIEWERS tended to be even less diverse. Michel Martin talks about the study with Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, a former editor of The New York Times Book Review and current editorial director for Delphinium Books.