meanings

[Lai]

Hi Teacher,

Could you please tell me the meanings of the bracketed clauses in the following two sentences?

1. For journalists of color, it means resisting the professionally driven
tendency, as one Seattle Times reporter termed it, ["to write while", which
he described as employing "a certain language, a certain code."]

2. The ways in which racist presuppositions are implicated in the routinized
practices of news production, from the news values in operation to gut
instincts about source credibility, are often difficult to identify, [let alone
reverse. ]

Thanks a lot.

[Temico]

"to write while"

I think that it should be "to write white" which means to write like a White person would, "employing a certain language, a certain code."

2. The ways in which racist presuppositions are implicated in the routinized
practices of news production,from the news values in operation to gut
instincts about source credibility, are often difficult to identify, [let alone
reverse (them). ]

Deleting the phrase in italics, you'd get:-

"The ways in which racist presuppositions are implicated in the routinized
practices of news production are often difficult to identify, let alone
reverse (them)." = "It is often not only difficult to reverse, but also to identify the ways in which racist presuppositions are implicated in the routinized practices of news production."