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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,
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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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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...