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Posted by michelle garcia March 31st, 2008 |
Even so, the blogger-journo relationship presents an interesting opportunity as we face a dark moment in terms of the economy and the shrinking world of journalism. How this synergy develops might take us to another interesting level of media in this country. For now though, we’re living and working in a closet of chaos.
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Posted by Jennifer L Pozner March 30th, 2008 |
I just want to say that I am incredibly proud right now to be facilitating a sesion — at this very moment — with Deanne Cuellar (WIMN’s Voices blogger, director of the Texas Media Empowerment Project and MAGNET: Media Action Grassroots Network), Anne Elizabeth Moore (WIMN’s Voices blogger, author of Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing and […]
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Posted by Jennifer L Pozner March 29th, 2008 |
Media love to tell women we should be ashamed of aging. “You never ask a lady her age,” we hear from news anchors to soap opera characters. But WIMN’s Voices is turning 1,000 today, and we couldn’t be happier at how we’ve grown up.
This, in fact, is the thousandth post to WIMN’s Voices, the […]
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Posted by Jennifer L Pozner March 29th, 2008 |
Opportunity for Boston area folks: This weekend through Monday there will be several chances to meet Women In Media & News’s staff, board and bloggers at the WAM!2008 conference today (Saturday) and tomorrow (Sunday), as well the next day (Monday) at MIT, where I will be speaking about reality TV as cultural backlash against women […]
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Posted by Margaret Morganroth Gullette March 28th, 2008 |
On March 27th, PBS repeated “Living Old”– its mainly depressive portrait of people over 85, most of whom are sick, and some of whom are sick and tired of living. The moral–implied in some of the interviews–is that no one should want to live that long. But hey, I finally said to myself on second […]
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Posted by Guest Blogger March 27th, 2008 |
From Hannah Sassaman comes this announcement for two job openings at Prometheus Radio Project — deadline Apr. 11.
Two Jobs Available at the Prometheus Radio Project!
The Prometheus Radio Project is hiring for two permanent full time jobs
– a Station Support Organizer and a Campaign Director. Please read the
email below for short descriptions of our […]
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Posted by Guest Blogger March 26th, 2008 |
By Guest Blogger Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser
An interesting—sobering—study from the American Journal of Public Health was reported upon in the New York Times that revealed how the veneer of being pro-breastfeeding from the infant formula companies—the “in-favor” part is the pro-breastfeeding literature in the “gift bag” sent home with new mothers from the hospital—turns out […]
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Posted by Diane Farsetta March 25th, 2008 |
This story has been sitting on my desk for a while. Although I immediately thought of posting about it on WIMN’s Voices, it almost seemed almost too easy and too repetitive.
Wow, another intrusion of marketing forces into our lives? One that relies on negative (you’re not good enough) and positive (you like to […]
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Posted by Guest Blogger March 24th, 2008 |
By Guest Blogger Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser
What happens when the most glam stars go all… maternal? The fascination with celebrity pregnancies and celebrities’ babies is well documented. These days, a glossy magazine spread for PR is de rigueur when a tiny tot enters a celebrity family. It’s a trend Daniel Harris noted in November of 2006 […]
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Posted by Jennifer L Pozner March 20th, 2008 |
Gotta love Stephen Colbert. In a segment of tonight’s “The Colbert Report” about water issues, Mr. Mock-O’Reilly himself explained: “Here’s how scientists say the water cycle works. First, the sun causes ground water to evaporate, which then condenses into clouds. Then, feminists and taxes make God cry, an the ocean gets replenished.”
Below, check […]