IN THE 'POST,' OF ALL PLACES: The Washington Post published this favorable review of William McGowan's "Coloring The News." (There's another favorable review in CJR.) It's been interesting to note the huge blow-up over Bernard Goldberg's apparently weaker "Bias" compared with this work, which seems to have been much more scrupulously researched. I think that's because "diversity" is an issue most liberal journalists would rather avoid if they can. The Post explains why in this ready-made book jacket blurb: "McGowan has done nothing but deconstruct the idea of diversity throughout 'Coloring the News' -- first, by showing the confounding effect of what doesn't get reported in diversity issues; and second, by exposing the bogus pluralism of newsrooms that try to mirror American demography in every way except for diversity in political, religious and class affiliations."