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RECLAIM THE DAY! A Call to Action
Fifteen years ago, in a book defending Clarence Thomas’s selection for the Supreme Court, author David Brock described me as “nutty” and “slutty.” After making millions in book sales, Brock recanted...
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Alternatives to the Summer Blockbuster
The summer movie season kicks off this weekend with Spiderman 3 descending onto thousands of screens at a multiplex near you. Hollywood prognosticators predict the biggest grossing summer EVER with ...
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Creating a Literary Home for Older Women
Older women writers are often at the height of their creative abilities, but for us to appreciate their work, we need to have access to it.
Our youth-oriented society fails to validate, much less ...
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Robin Morgan and Anna Quindlen on the Media, Politics, and Change
Robin Morgan and Anna Quindlen discuss the media, politics and change. Excerpted below, this conversation is the beginning of a series of conversations sponsored by the Women’s Media Center.
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Media Mistakes Fuel High Court Abortion Ruling
[The] partial birth abortion ban is a political scam but a public relations goldmine... The major benefit is the debate that surrounds it. —Randall Terry
Ruth Bader Ginzburg’s Dissent As Linda ...
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Beyond Imus—It’s the Hypocrisy, Stupid!
Periodically, some new wound rips the scab off our national, livid scar where sex and race intersect: the young law professor, Anita Hill, shaming Congress by her dignity and inspiring women with he...
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Imus Fallout—“No One Gets a Pass Here”
The Reverend Al Sharpton, a key point man on the successful campaign against Don Imus this week, gave clear signals that this was the beginning rather than the end of the war.
Long searching for a...
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Rutgers Team as “Instrument of Change”
C. Vivian Stringer, the coach of the Imus-defamed college basketball team, got it exactly right this morning on the CBS Early Show, calling her young women an “instrument of change.” As the story de...
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The Rutgers Women Speak Out
“Mr. Imus has stolen a moment of pure grace from us.”
Rutgers’ team leader Essence Carson, who said she and her team were “highly angered… and deeply saddened” by Don Imus’ remarks, said that the ...
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How to Finally Answer Imus
That's some rough girls from Rutgers," Imus said. "Man, they got tattoos . . . "
"Some hardcore hos," McGuirk said.
"That's some nappy-headed hos there, I'm going to tell you that," Imus said.
...
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Women's Sports and Media - The Challenges Ahead
It’s the Super Bowl of women’s sports this week in Cleveland, Ohio: the NCAA Women’s Final Four is in town after years of planning. Even security guards at the sold-out Quicken Loans arena marvel at...
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One More Taboo
In 1984, when my brother came down with the mysterious disease that came to be called AIDS, the diagnosis was a death sentence; today it is a disconcerting and traumatic, but not fatal, surprise. Th...
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March 26, 2007 | Gemma Puglisi |
Media
Is Three the Charm? Running the Network Nightly News
When NBC nightly news execs got the ratings for February and could sense ABC nosing ahead, they decided to do something drastic. They hired a woman.
“Nightly News with Brian Williams” had maintain...
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Journalists, Recruited from Provinces, Train in Bangladesh
When Pushpita Alam began interviewing candidates for a fellowship program in Bangladesh teaching working-class women to be journalists, she looked for personal strength and the determination to exce...
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Feminist Bloggergate—a Cautionary Tale
The first feminist political uproar of 2007 was not about Hillary Clinton but about two, relatively unknown-to-the-mainstream stars of the feminist blogosphere. Amanda Marcotte of Pandagon and Melis...
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Women's Voices Missing from the Theatre—Does Anyone Care?
In recent weeks, if you scanned the Broadway theatre listings in New York you would see the names of some of the most prominent actresses of our time, such stars as Angela Lansbury, Vanessa Redgrave...
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Berkeley Daily Planet Tribute for Molly Ivins
Molly Ivins died January 31, while under hospice care at her home in Austin. This tribute appeared the day before.
The news over the weekend was not good. Molly Ivins, everyone’s favorite smart-mo...
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January 22, 2007 | Kristal Brent Zook |
Media
Digging at Duke
Last spring, I must have spent more hours with the family of the accuser in the Duke case than any other print journalist. Believe me, the view from inside is nothing like what Americans are being f...
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A Powerful Media Can Stop a War
I want to share a story. I wonder how many know the name, Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi. How many know who she was?
Abeer was a 14-old-girl, living with her family about 50 miles south of Baghdad...
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Charlayne Hunter-Gault on the “New News” from Africa
With a career spanning more than four decades, there is nothing Charlayne Hunter-Gault “hasn’t done, covered, said, influenced,” said Women’s Media Center President Carol Jenkins, introducing the ve...
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The Future of Feminism is Online. Are You?
If you want to connect with the 15 to 30 year old crowd, you’d better start inhabiting their world—the virtual one of MySpace, Facebook and Friendster, YouTube, and too many blogs to name. Each is ...
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September 06, 2006 | Carol Jenkins |
Media
Katie Couric’s First Day
Be cynical if you like, but this was one newscast that I would not miss—because it was the one I thought I’d never see in my lifetime.
When Katie Couric debuted on the CBS network news, I was ther...
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Regan Hofmann on the Hidden Faces of HIV
“Is there any way that we can stop this?” Regan Hofmann asked the Creative Director of POZ magazine the night before its April edition went to press. With the April issue, Hofmann officially came ou...
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Middle East “Voices of Resistance”
In the displacement of Lebanese civilians due to the current conflict, women are suffering the most, said Lina Abou-Habib, speaking from Beirut on a marathon broadcast by FIRE (Feminist Internationa...
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Pay Gap Is Widest in Top-Paying Media Industry Segments
Women in the highest paid sections of the communications and media industry face an average pay gap of $13,000 a year when compared to men, according to a new report.
The Institute for Women’s Pol...
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