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Re: Sexism might sell, but we're not buying

Sun, 25 May 2008 15:53:49 -0000

I signed it.

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Toonces (MeM) — Sun, 25 May 2008 15:15:33 -0000

I haven't watched CNN or MSNBC or any of their side channels (the business ones) for about a year and before that it was pretty scarce. I don't even click on links to their sites (or WaPo, or Huffpo, or Kos, etc.) Of course I haven't watched Fox News (even the local affiliate) for many, many years. If I want to watch the news I watch BBC news America on PBS and usually I can figure out what's going on by just reading headlines on Google news. Not saying everyone should do that but it does feel mighty good to know that my .03 cents per click or commercial or whatever isn't going to the giant corporations intent on murdering my democracy for profit.

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Hava — Sun, 25 May 2008 15:14:03 -0000

Signed and sent here, too.

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rrp — Sun, 25 May 2008 15:01:23 -0000

signed and sent

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KathleenB — Sun, 25 May 2008 13:47:04 -0000

And now I have something to show my father when he starts going on about how he hasn't seen any sexism directed at Clinton.

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MR Bill — Sun, 25 May 2008 11:24:42 -0000

Done.

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Brian S (formerly Incertus) — Sun, 25 May 2008 10:43:54 -0000

The only thing that's comforting in that video--and it is small comfort indeed--is that Tucker Fucking Carlson isn't on television anymore. Now for the rest of them.

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RKMK — Sun, 25 May 2008 10:25:48 -0000

For so many female reporters it all comes down to- if you want the job, you have to be part of the problem until we don't think we need you anymore.

Exactly. They have to be part of the boys club, or they're gone. The problem starts at the top, trickles down.

Kinda makes a girl wish she had the resources to start her own media conglomerate, but at $0.70 on the dollar, my resources are a little tight.

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Hawise- The Big Apron — Sun, 25 May 2008 10:19:14 -0000

For so many female reporters it all comes down to- if you want the job, you have to be part of the problem until we don't think we need you anymore.

Sexism = the death by a thousand cuts.

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handsomemaggie — Sun, 25 May 2008 10:03:44 -0000

Thanks, Wolfrum. Hope you mom continues to do well. Thanks for being there with us. You, sir, are a man and there are so few these days.

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Esme — Sun, 25 May 2008 09:39:11 -0000

I had to stop it about 3/4 of the way through. That much piled on at once, I could 't cope.

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RKMK — Sun, 25 May 2008 09:34:24 -0000

And now we get "Oh, well the black guy could get shot!" as her excuse for why she continues to stay in the primary.

Sadly, it seems so many are buying it...

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ginmar — Sun, 25 May 2008 09:25:26 -0000

God, I had to stop the damned video and it froze on Tucker Carlson's smirk. Where's that video of Jon Stewart ripping him a new one?

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JoAsakura — Sun, 25 May 2008 08:57:45 -0000

Also, I just got to the Tucker Carlson spot. I went from stabbity to rampage in about 2 seconds. Gods, I hate him, perhaps more than tweety.

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JoAsakura — Sun, 25 May 2008 08:55:35 -0000

ARGH. My breakfast has a side of stabbity. Thank you for posting this.

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Gayle — Sun, 25 May 2008 08:54:27 -0000

That was a very well done video. Thanks!

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Suzann — Sun, 25 May 2008 07:32:02 -0000

Haydin. Yes!

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Suzann — Sun, 25 May 2008 07:30:58 -0000

To answer my own question: I just read a Roper Public Opinion Poll that said a majority of Americans trust PBS first, and then CNN and FOX second. It didn't say that they watched PBS, though.

It sure seems as if most Americans watch the mainstream media. The clip from the Women's Media Center, while highlighting the unbelievable, outrageous bigotry of these doods, highlights even more what a tragedy our mainstream news media has become. A circus. A mayhem machine. A full-blown misogyny-fest.

It's so out of control that Chris Matthews has no problem telling his female guest to come closer to the camera to satisfy his creepiness, and no one .... well, fires him?

Thank you, Wolfrum, for posting this. Yesterday my Sig.O. proclaimed himself a feminist. Ok, so it's off to The Women's Media Center to make our voices heard.

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haydin — Sun, 25 May 2008 07:13:47 -0000

This is why I don't watch television. Because that segment of society hates me. It hates me and it hates my breasts and it hates my gender and it hates my ambitions and my wrinkles and my pimples. Just sell your TV and get rid of cable - then you can spend that 30 bucks a month on nice books and meals and soldering irons and knitting needles.

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Suzann — Sun, 25 May 2008 06:25:59 -0000

I've been trying to watch only PBS. But I wonder how many people choose PBS over the mainstream media?

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ShakerGretchen — Sun, 25 May 2008 02:04:16 -0000

What's been striking me lately is how often the female reporters are selected to report the NOOZ that's the subtler sexism - comments on appearance, eating habits, etc. And I have to imagine that they die inside a little each time, knowing that it's only a matter of time before the same comments are directed at them as they're being demoted or fired.

And of course, having them do the "reporting" is the network's way of saving face - because if a woman says it, it can't be sexism, of course.

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Hawise- The Big Apron — Sun, 25 May 2008 00:31:35 -0000

Crap- this will have to keep 'til morning though.