Just when I’m pretty sure it’s 2006, something in the press will remind me that we still haven’t left the ‘50s.

What an odd coincidence it is that the New York Times and the Washington Post both decided to have articles on female politicians this morning, the Times on Nancy Pelosi and the Post on Hillary Clinton. Hecate has an interesting take on this tale of two women as girls trying to get into the boys’ treehouse, and there’s some of that going on for sure.

I came out of the latest installment of the X-Men movie series, “The Last Stand,” like most fans of the comic book: deeply disappointed. Some were upset by the limited screen time of aficionado favorites like Angel (precursor to Archangel) while others lamented the two dimensional vilification of Magneto, X-Men antagonist and leader for […]

*Note: This post was updated on June 1 to include an excerpt from the official transcript.
On Sunday’s Today show, anchor Lester Holt interviewed Charity Navigator’s Trent Stamp about “donor fatigue” in the wake of numerous national and international natural disasters. Over b-roll footage shot by George Clooney in the Sudan, Stamp claimed that, […]

If not for a certain woman, the movie of the moment might never have been made.

Last week I was pleasantly surprised to learn I was included in the She Draws Comics: A Century of Women Cartoonists exhibit at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art in New York. (Which is still up for a few months, so get down to Soho and check it out if you’re in the area). […]

The continued devastation and poverty facing families in the Gulf Coast region has remained (at least intermittently) in the headlines – but we haven’t heard nearly enough coverage of the fact that unless a key bill gets passed before the weekend, approximately 80,000 workers unemployed due to hurricanes Katrina and Rita will lose their benefits […]

Karen Kornbluh has sharply pointed out the ridiculous logic behind the idea that moms can’t work at important jobs (more on that here).
Now let’s go to the other portion of that logic: women shouldn’t have sex unless it can lead to pregnancy.
That’s the idea behind what the Los Angeles Times is reporting today: that the […]

Karen Kornbluh on TomPaine.com has blogged a very apt analysis of ABC’s recent replacement of pregnant Elizabeth Vargas with baby boomer Charles Gibson as anchor of World News Tonight:
ABC, facing a ratings disaster, has replaced Elizabeth Vargas with Charlie Gibson who will anchor the evening news through the 2008 election when Bob Woodruff, originally Vargas’s […]

Here is a link to an article that I just published about the chest-pounding hystrionics over several deaths that have been linked to RU 486. While the article does not specifically discuss the role of the media in this story, the bottom line is that there would be no story if the media didn’t […]