U.S. newsrooms are very white. So are the critics and the journalists that cover them. The Objective was founded, this year, for a specific reason: To provide reporting, first-person commentary, and reported essays on how journalism has misrepresented or excluded specific communities in coverage, as well as how newsrooms have treated staff from those communities.

But there’s an undercurrent to this mission: Media criticism and reporting, as a field, has failed to hone in on how racism and exclusion in media isn’t just a story — it’s the story. American journalism has for generations failed to hold itself accountable. And by and large, media criticism and reporting have failed to center this glaring problem in their reporting.

As Objective cofounder Gabe Schneider writes this week:

Media reporting about race or gender or class is still a rarity. Instead, reporting on race or gender or class or disability or sexual orientation is often relegated to a passing mention or a one-off story, not a theme that’s punctuated throughout media stories. And while this failure of American journalism is true across most beats, it’s particularly on the nose when these reporters are supposed to be reporting on journalism’s failures.

Bon Appétit messes up…again. In June, Bon Appétit issued a public apology following Adam Rapoport’s resignation. The publication vowed to leave complicity in the past and “center…the contributions of marginalized people.” Earlier this week, Bon Appétit unequivocally went back on its promise, allowing Marcus Samuelsson to publish his version of Soup Joumou.

The controversy doesn’t stop at the appropriation of a culturally significant dish, however: One of the recipe’s original authors, Yewande Komolafe, who was cited in the byline of the dish, said she was not involved in the article’s creation.

Read the full article about U.S. newsrooms by The Objective at NiemanLab.