Narrow-Minded People Are Sometimes Pretty Nice. Related: What Happened When I Stopped Trying To вЂњOut-ManвЂќ The Men I Work With I had to be the weirdo to notice how normal everyone else really was. It took being the вЂњonlyвЂќ one in the room to see my own biases. In her book Onlyness, business scholar and strategist Nilofer Merchant talks about how we often only treat people as their silhouettes, not their unique and varied singular selves.Д«y working at Fox, I realized how I had stereotyped conservativesвЂ“how I assumed they were all heartless and hateful and, thus, I hated them for it.

Realizing this taught me that nothing is always exactlyвЂ“or onlyвЂ“what it seems. And behind the scenes, I know lots of other liberals at the network were also frequently pushing where they could for more balanced coverage.Д«usinesses, like all of us (as Walt Whitman put it), contain multitudes the same is true of Fox News, at least to an extent. Certainly I felt like Fox News was better because I was on the airвЂ“being visible and making a strong argument for liberal policy positions. On the other hand, there are definitely do-gooders within institutions who see themselves making a difference from the inside. And IвЂ™ve definitely known men who work at womenвЂ™s empowerment organizations who are sexist pigs. IвЂ™m sure there are marketing execs at cigarette companies who caution their own kids not to smoke. IвЂ™m sure there are people working at oil and gas companies who care deeply about the environment and even drive Priuses. See, one important thing I learned from my time there is that no place is entirely its stereotype.

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