Stop the presses! Women are newsworthy.
You’ll forgive me, won’t you, for my lack of rah-rah-ness upon reading today’s story about increased coverage of women planned for next month by NBC News. A whole week, all about us! It makes me want to lift my very old and very heavy non-flat-screen TV and heave it off the balcony. It makes me want to heave in a few other ways.
Women get so little media coverage that even an old study of how little we get wouldn’t read very differently today.
Here’s a better idea. Feature stories on or by women every single day in every single newspaper section and in every single newscast who are not: wealthy, white, powerful, celebrities, celebrities’ wives, girlfriends, mothers, daughters, mistresses, murdered ex’es, politicians, murder or violence victims.
I’m not advocating quotas or skewing coverage. We’re already being fed a skewed and distorted vision when women — 50 percent of the population — consistently receive a lot less than 50 percent of the media’s attention.
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What you talking about…I just spent the weekend watching a Baywatch marathon…doesn’t that count?
Amen, Caitlin. What does it say about our gendered media culture that my first thought, after reading your first graf, was “Is it women’s history month already?”