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Archive for August, 2007
In Fox’s new reality television series Anchorwoman, viewers will have the opportunity to watch as former Miss New York Lauren Jones tries her best to hike ratings at a Tyler, Texas TV station (KYTX Channel 19) with her good looks and total dearth of broadcast journalism experience.
I can’t begin to imagine how offensive such […]
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Uncategorized, Pop Culture, Body Image, Reality TV |
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Those of us who remember when the word “alternative” meant “one of at least two if not several valid options”—and not what it means today, “riddled with pop-cultural references that we pawn off as news, managing simultaneously to hide our big-business ownership behind the occasional swear”—may feel slightly offended bythis column from Editor and Publisher […]
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Uncategorized, Advertising, American Culture, Political Dissent |
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I’ve complained before that articles on possible environmental links to breast (and other) cancers are relatively few and far between, and those that appear have no “legs.” So I was excited to hear about “No Family History,” an upcoming documentary investigating the links between breast cancer and the environment. Now […]
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Environment, Health & Sexuality, Science |
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By Guest Blogger Zuzu
At least, that’s what an unidentified Glamour editor told young attorneys (likely summer associates) at Cleary, Gottlieb in New York, according to Jezebel:
Well, a recent slide show by an unidentified Glamour editor on the “Dos and Don’ts of Corporate Fashion” at a New York law firm shed some light on the […]
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African Americans in Entertainment, Age, American Culture, Commercialism, Feminism, Human Rights & Civil Liberties, Legal & Political Affairs, LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) Issues, Pop Culture, Race, Workplace Discrimination, Body Image |
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I love Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart, but the other day when searching for something on the Daily Show’s website, I started searching through the interview videos that are posted on the website which confirmed something that I’ve known but haven’t wanted to confront–both Stewart and Colbert have an abysmal record when it comes to […]
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Uncategorized, Media Justice Now, Race, Outrages & Responsibilities |
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8/15 UPDATE: Segment bumped due to a breaking news story that took priority.
MEDIA APPEARANCE: I’ll be on Fox News Live tomorrow at 12:30 or so to discuss the potential “comeback” of Don Imus — see below for details about the discussion, the time of the show, and the back story.
Long-time, loud-and-proud bigot Don […]
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African Americans in Entertainment, American Culture, Commercialism, Feminism, Human Rights & Civil Liberties, Media Justice Now, Pop Culture, Race, WIMN’s Executive Director’s Blog, Girls and LGBT Youth, Issues in the News, Outrages & Responsibilities, Body Image |
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Cross-posted from Feminist Peace Network:
Many thanks to Sam Diener at Peaceworks for passing along this atrocious, misogynist photo spread in V Magazine which shows decapitated/mutilated women stuffed into shoes in a piece called “Foot Fetish”. Memo to the folks at V Mag–there is nothing sexy or erotic about these hacker-porn pics, the level […]
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Uncategorized, Advertising, Commercialism, Health & Sexuality, Outrages & Responsibilities, Body Image |
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The latest twist in the tale of the recent, shocking attack on Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin is that the police in Hyderabad (India) have registered a case against her!
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Electoral Politics, Feminism, Human Rights & Civil Liberties, International Media, International Media Activism, Violence Against Women, Issues in the News |
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Earlier, I mentioned that I’ll be appearing on PBS’s “To The Contrary with Bonnie Erbe” this weekend (visit that link for more details about the subjects we debated, and a link to check your local listings for airtimes).
I taped the segment today, and I have to say - it was a particularly heated discussion, especially […]
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Advertising, Age, American Culture, The Blogosphere, Domestic Politics, Economics, Electoral Politics, Feminism, Health & Sexuality, Human Rights & Civil Liberties, Immigration, Political Dissent, Latina/o Community, Legal & Political Affairs, Media Justice Now, Media Policy Reform, Pop Culture, Race, WIMN’s Executive Director’s Blog, Girls and LGBT Youth, Issues in the News, Public Relations |
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