Sayonara, Judy Miller. Maureen Dowd is the latest "it girl." Arianna Huffington made the rounds, touting the joys of bloggery, but Dowd pushed her aside with a potent mix of hair flipping and flip assertions. Perhaps a recent study demonstrating that the female voice is [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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Reader Comments
Why can’t a woman write more like a man? When I was a young journalism student, before the days when every story had a byline, journalism was about good research and good writing. With the advent of ubiquitous bylines (and how did that happen anyway?), journalism became personality-based with predictable results. May the ghost of Ida Tarbell rest in peace.
Hey, my local news headline today was :
“A Day of Drinking Led Woman to Kill Boyfriend”
Pretty insightful, and eye grabbing, eh?
Pretty concise, I don’t even have to wonder about the precedents….
Budweiser is clearly to blame in this scenario, lol
“...this spring
The consolidation of news corporations into a few male-dominated supermedia no doubt has contributed greatly to the bias in staffing. That should be corrected, but don’t hold your breath waiting for the profit-hungry execs to make it a priority.
That said, it would be foolish to expect that a fair gender balance would automatically result in a more sensitive, liberal and woman-oriented news environment. Women nowadays tend to be just as politically divided as men, and for every new Molly Ivins you would get a new Ann Coulter.
The best approach is to level the playing field and insist on good reporting from all involved.
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