Is The Media Fair to Women? Let The Facts Speak
By E.J. Graff, Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism In 1999, on the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, feminist legal scholar Catherine...
View ArticleNews Brief: Ellen de Generes Marries; How Bad Is TV’s Chris Matthews? Vitamin...
Reader, I married her: At 50, she’s already got a top TV show and has made history numerous times, from coming out in Time magazine in 1997 to this year’s soulful statements on hate crimes and gay...
View ArticleA View About the Democratic Convention’s Media Coverage
By Dr. Patricia Yarberry Allen The Boys of the Fourth Estate, led by the blowhard Chris Mathews, “entertained” the television audience on the first night of the Democratic convention before House...
View ArticleMother-Daughter Post-Election Special, Part Two: Baby Boomers and Barack
Yesterday, 25-year-old Kate White, the daughter of an aide to Vice-President-elect Joseph Biden, told us how she — and many of her generation — felt on Election Night this year. Now, as promised,...
View ArticleVIDEO: Taking on Media Sexism As Fall Election Season Begins
The fall election season has begun. And given the number of women running for office, we're grateful to the new NameItChangeIt campaign, which takes aim at sexist coverage of women candidates.
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