Snapshot · The Bulwark Podcast
John Dickerson's mother, Nancy Dickerson, was the first woman correspondent to cover the White House for CBS News, pioneering a path for women in broadcast journalism.
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Tim Miller floats a quarter-baked observation: for all the justified mockery of corporate Pride floats and performative climate pledges, there's something unsettling about watching it all disappear. Dickerson develops the thought: strip away the cynical virtue signaling and you still lose the scholarship showing diversity genuinely improves decisions, and the model effect of seeing someone like you in a public role. He speaks from personal experience — as the son of the first woman White House correspondent for CBS, he's heard from countless people who say his mother lifted their eyes to a horizon they'd never seen. And on AI, the Trump promise of 'let a thousand flowers bloom' has quietly become a gatekeeping function: OpenAI has to run new models by the administration before release. The lesson, Miller says, is be careful what you wish for when you're rooting for virtue signalers to be humiliated. [1] — John Dickerson "John Dickerson's mother Nancy was the first woman correspondent at CBS News to cover the White House — and spent her career being told audi…" 27:45
John Dickerson's mother Nancy was the first woman correspondent at CBS News to cover the White House — and spent her career being told audiences don't care about women. People who saw her in that role say she lifted their eyes to a horizon they'd never seen. Strip away the DEI language, but don't strip the research showing diversity genuinely improves decisions.
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