UPDATE, July 13: Here’s a sample of last night’s livetweets of “The Bachelorette”:
@jennpozner: We begin as always: 6seasons of #Bachelorette +14seasons of #Bachelor: ALL 20 stars +most daters were white #RealityBitesBack
@jennpozner: Will #Bachelorette Ali end up with salsa-dancing Roberto Martinez? Answer’s in surname: in #Bachelorverse #MrRightMustBeWhite
@jennpozner: #Bachelor franchise IS bigoted;that’s what I meant RT @GeriJarvis […]

Quick hit: now that I’m done writing Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth About Guilty Pleasure TV (available for pre-order now), I’ve been turning my critical analysis of reality TV into an interactive sport. So, if you’re interested in critical gender, race and class analysis of reality television, follow and join me as I livetweet […]

Starting this month, I’ll be doing biweekly cartoons for the fabulous Women’s eNews (which will also be debuting a fabulous new website design sometime soon). Here’s the first one, “Pre-Existing Condition.” For more on this topic, see “Reformers Say Maternity Benefits Make Dollar Sense” and “Push Is On to Cover Prenatal Care in Health Plan”

By Guest Blogger Adele M. Stan, cross-posted with AlterNet.
In response to coverage of its “Mad Bitch” video by WIMN, TPM, AlterNet and others, WaPo has killed “Mouthpiece Theater.”
As reported here yesterday, the Women, Action and the Media (WAM!) community yesterday delivered a letter to Washington Post Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli (among the signers was […]

By Guest Blogger Adele M. Stan

August 4, 2009
Mr. Marcus W. Brauchli
Executive Editor
The Washington Post
1150 15th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20071
cc: Andrew Alexander, ombudsman
Dear Mr. Brauchli:
As members of Women, Action & the Media, we write to protest the Washington Post’s production and presentation of the July 31 “Mouthpiece Theater” episode titled, “Menage a Stella Artois,” and the […]

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Seriously, even Vogue has an annual “Shape” issue where they patronizingly allow someone as (*GASP*) huge as Beyonce or Kate Winslet on the cover in addition to their usual sub-zero model roundup… then offer drastic dieting tips… all while mysteriously claiming to promote body acceptance: And don’t miss the small print under the […]

Grist, the online environmental magazine, had this very creative and accurate (if a bit mean-spirited) editorial on Sarah Palin’s resignation from her post as governor of Alaska.
Click on the “greeting card” and you’ll see what I mean.
Palin’s no friend of the earth, and the cartoon (or whatever you’d call it) made me laugh. […]

By Guest Blogger Jonathan McIntosh
I usually try to stay away from the forces of darkness, but last week I killed a famous vampire – and let me tell you, it was fun! Actually, I didn’t stake him myself — I used new media tools to allow one of the strongest female television characters of […]

This BBC report, headlined “Papers alter Israel cabinet photo,” has to be seen to be believed.

Pink women’s underwear appeared on the front pages of newspapers and became a hot topic on prime time news programmes in India earlier this month. The phenomenon appears to have attracted attention elsewhere in the world, too.