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Lucy Lippard on Eco Art and Climate Change
Lucy Lippard is curator of Weather Report: Art and Climate Change, her first major exhibition in 20 years. The internationally renowned cultural and art critic, feminist and political activist has w...
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The GreenStone Story—Radio That Talked to Women
On September 12, 2006 GreenStone Media threw a star-studded soiree for the official, public launch of its female-targeted radio network at New York City’s Museum of Television and Radio. Named promi...
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WMC Commentary: Hillary Clinton’s Masculine Communication Style Just Might Win the Prize
Of course Hillary Clinton is “running as a woman.” As former Colorado Congresswoman Pat Schroeder aptly reminded us when asked the same question during her 1988 presidential bid: “do I have a choice...
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In Boy Versus Girl, It's Hillary 1, Media 0
The opinions expressed here are those of the author alone, and not those of the Women’s Media Center. As a 501(c)3 organization, the Women’s Media Center does not endorse or support candidates for e...
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Media Consortium Report: Snoops Get a Direct Line
It seemed like shocking news last week when the telecommunications giant Verizon admitted it has readily allowed national security investigators without warrants to browse customer records on thousa...
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October 09, 2007 | Faye Anderson |
Media
From Imus to Industry—What Price Dignity?
Hours into viewing the live webcast September 25 of the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection hearing, “From Imus to Industry: The Business of Stereotypes and Degrading Image...
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Benazir Bhutto—Will a Third Term Be the Charm?
Pinky Bhutto—Benazir’s school nickname in Karachi—is coming back. Will she become prime minister of Pakistan a third time? Will three be the lucky number allowing her to complete a full term? Will a...
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Hillary, Condi, Aung San Suu Kyi and You
Consider these two images from recent news events: 20,000 monks marching past Burmese Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s home to protest the democracy leader’s 11-year house arrest and the country’s ...
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Hillary Evens the Score on the Sunday Morning Circuit
I watched as much of Hillary Clinton as I could yesterday—it was almost an all day affair. In a well orchestrated media blitz, the Clinton campaign managed to squeeze in lengthy interviews on all fi...
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Ms. Memories
It is always stunning to me to realize that an event that still lives in my contemporary memory actually took place decades ago; so when I was invited to a 35th anniversary celebration for Ms. Magaz...
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The Invisible World Cup
Along with most people in this country, you probably haven't noticed that the U.S. women's national soccer team, ranked number one in the world by FIFA (soccer's governing body), is off in China com...
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September 17, 2007 | Deborah Siegel |
Media
Wired, She Wrote
“Somebody call the twelve-year old!” cried my mother as the screen on the boxy home computer I was using to write my first high school term paper went inexplicably dark. I was ready to pound the off...
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Women Are Half of All Bloggers—But Media Aren’t Noticing
If you get your news from, well, the news media, you can be forgiven if you didn’t know that nearly 800 women gathered in Chicago last weekend for the third annual convention of BlogHer, an online c...
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A Modest Proposal . . .
. . . to the Young Man on the Plane from Los Angeles to Seattle who said of the movie that most passengers—male and female—voted to watch, “I don’t watch chick flicks!”
So what exactly is a “chick...
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Al Mahaba Radio Speaks to Iraqi Women
Bushra Jamil, co-founder of Radio Al Mahaba, the first and only independent women’s radio station in the Middle East, has questions. Lots of them.
“Why on earth would America come in and get rid o...
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Women’s eNews Five Years Later
When Rita Henley Jensen arrived in New York City in 1977 and enrolled in Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, she had no idea how difficult it would be to get her stories about women...
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Hillary in Book-land
At first glance, the impact of the latest two mega-books on Hillary Clinton seems neutral if not mostly positive for her.
She appeared a relaxed, commanding figure in the second Democratic debate,...
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June 14, 2007 | Carol Jenkins |
Media
Rather on CBS and Couric
Women’s Media Center President Carol Jenkins on former CBS anchor Dan Rather’s remarks that CBS is “dumbing it down and tarting it up,” referring to the current CBS Evening News with Katie Couric:
...
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New Study Finds Abysmally Few Minority and Women Owned Radio Stations
In 1976, the U.S. Court of Appeals advised the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that it should begin to include race as a factor in deciding which applicants to approve licenses for broadcast...
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The Thinking Woman’s Theater—Mary-Mitchell Campbell
I first saw Company by Stephen Sondheim back in the 70s, when Elaine Stritch with her alcoholic rasp was singing “Here’s to the Ladies Who Lunch” and the whole show had a snooty, misogynistic qualit...
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Jordanian Journalist Breaks Taboos Campaigning Against Violence
Dua Khalil is stoned to death in Iraq for being seen with a man of another religion. A woman is shot dead in Jordan after her photo appears on her brother’s friend’s cellphone. Muqadas Bibi’s throat...
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Chicago Radio Station Owner at the Crossroads
When civil rights activist Medgar Evers was murdered in 1963, more than 50,000 callers flooded WVON (1690 AM), then known as “Voice of the Negro”; so many callers, in fact, that they caused a meltdo...
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May 29, 2007 International,
Media
Journalists from five Middle Eastern Countries Reach Out to U.S. Colleagues
“Since you decided to rule the whole world,” a Lebanese TV journalist challenged her American audience, “you should know more about us.”
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Misleading Ads and How They Hurt Us
Selling anxiety sells medicine. Drug companies know this and profit by it. But are women benefiting as much as the industry’s bottom line?
The pharmaceutical industry spent much of its $4.2 billio...
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The Mother’s Day Gift I Want
Jewish mothers have gotten a bad rap—for being overprotective, overfeeding, intrusive, manipulative, guilt inducing. The list is easily extended. It is almost impossible to remember that the Jewish ...
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