Comments on: The increasing number of female news anchors… http://insidecable.blogsome.com/2006/09/19/3284/ Unvarnished news & opinion on cable news Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:09:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: erljr http://insidecable.blogsome.com/2006/09/19/3284/#comment-15429 Wed, 20 Sep 2006 22:54:35 +0100 http://insidecable.blogsome.com/2006/09/19/3284/#comment-15429 Roger, what are you talking about? Roger, what are you talking about?

]]> by: Roger http://insidecable.blogsome.com/2006/09/19/3284/#comment-15365 Wed, 20 Sep 2006 10:33:01 +0100 http://insidecable.blogsome.com/2006/09/19/3284/#comment-15365 Face it! Anyone can read news copy. Only idiots and Gov. Megreavy fail to admit that they'd rather watch Helen Thomas or Charles Krauthammer read news than ANY articulate "babe-o-licious" anchor who gets GOOD questions fed into her ear by news savy producers. Good looks draw the viewership.......Greta not withstanding. Face it! Anyone can read news copy. Only idiots and Gov. Megreavy fail to admit that they’d rather watch Helen Thomas or Charles Krauthammer read news than ANY articulate “babe-o-licious” anchor who gets GOOD questions fed into her ear by news savy producers. Good looks draw the viewership…….Greta not withstanding.

]]> by: erljr http://insidecable.blogsome.com/2006/09/19/3284/#comment-15336 Tue, 19 Sep 2006 21:04:31 +0100 http://insidecable.blogsome.com/2006/09/19/3284/#comment-15336 Arthur, I agree with much of what you said, but not the terms "women's work" and “ghetto-ized.” I don't think journalism has become something inferior at all. I can say that, in my profession, salaries have kept up with inflation and cost-of-living. I know some people in other fields that have seen this trend, and they have never brought up inequities in pay for women. As for female anchors, here is the trend when it comes to dual anchors: 30 years ago: 2 men 20 years ago: 1 woman and 1 man 5 years ago: some can't find experienced men to anchor, so they try out 2 women temporarily, and they are surprised that ratings stay flat. Today: anchor teams have to have one woman; the other can be either a man or a woman. Maybe it's just me, but that doesn't appear “ghetto-ized.” Arthur, I agree with much of what you said, but not the terms “women’s work” and “ghetto-ized.” I don’t think journalism has become something inferior at all. I can say that, in my profession, salaries have kept up with inflation and cost-of-living. I know some people in other fields that have seen this trend, and they have never brought up inequities in pay for women.

As for female anchors, here is the trend when it comes to dual anchors:

30 years ago: 2 men

20 years ago: 1 woman and 1 man

5 years ago: some can’t find experienced men to anchor, so they try out 2 women temporarily, and they are surprised that ratings stay flat.

Today: anchor teams have to have one woman; the other can be either a man or a woman.

Maybe it’s just me, but that doesn’t appear “ghetto-ized.”

]]> by: OverHere http://insidecable.blogsome.com/2006/09/19/3284/#comment-15325 Tue, 19 Sep 2006 19:08:14 +0100 http://insidecable.blogsome.com/2006/09/19/3284/#comment-15325 Sorry Pete, I don't see that point in Arthur's comment at all. And I have a BIG problem with the idea that women entering a certain field lead to it being "ghetto-ized." Sorry Pete, I don’t see that point in Arthur’s comment at all. And I have a BIG problem with the idea that women entering a certain field lead to it being “ghetto-ized.”

]]> by: Pete http://insidecable.blogsome.com/2006/09/19/3284/#comment-15323 Tue, 19 Sep 2006 18:14:40 +0100 http://insidecable.blogsome.com/2006/09/19/3284/#comment-15323 The point is that even a story about women in local news becomes about Anderson Cooper. He's what matters most in cable news. The point is that even a story about women in local news becomes about Anderson Cooper. He’s what matters most in cable news.

]]> by: OverHere http://insidecable.blogsome.com/2006/09/19/3284/#comment-15315 Tue, 19 Sep 2006 16:30:32 +0100 http://insidecable.blogsome.com/2006/09/19/3284/#comment-15315 Arthur, I have the same degree as my male Law School classmates, and I make MORE than a lot of them do. I'm missing your point... Arthur, I have the same degree as my male Law School classmates, and I make MORE than a lot of them do. I’m missing your point…

]]> by: Arthur http://insidecable.blogsome.com/2006/09/19/3284/#comment-15307 Tue, 19 Sep 2006 14:58:48 +0100 http://insidecable.blogsome.com/2006/09/19/3284/#comment-15307 erljr - that only means education, even at management levels, is becoming 'womens work'. Would be interested to know if salaries of women principals were the inflation-adjusted equivalent of their male counterparts of thirty years ago. I expect that as more women enter medicine, it too will be slightly 'ghetto-ized' and doctors' recompense profession-wide will drop. I'm not justifying it - I think it's awful. But I've seen it before. Social work? Don't make me laugh. erljr - that only means education, even at management levels, is becoming ‘womens work’. Would be interested to know if salaries of women principals were the inflation-adjusted equivalent of their male counterparts of thirty years ago.

I expect that as more women enter medicine, it too will be slightly ‘ghetto-ized’ and doctors’ recompense profession-wide will drop.

I’m not justifying it - I think it’s awful. But I’ve seen it before. Social work? Don’t make me laugh.

]]> by: erljr http://insidecable.blogsome.com/2006/09/19/3284/#comment-15304 Tue, 19 Sep 2006 14:07:27 +0100 http://insidecable.blogsome.com/2006/09/19/3284/#comment-15304 You two are missing the big picture point. In my state, 52% of college FRESHMEN are female; and 60% of college GRADUATES are female. The pendulum is swinging. My work? I have watched a male dominated field turn into a female one. This has happened in many other field as well. Take, for example, as any of you who have children will attest, school principles. 25 years ago they were all men; and now the are mainly female. You two are missing the big picture point. In my state, 52% of college FRESHMEN are female; and 60% of college GRADUATES are female. The pendulum is swinging. My work? I have watched a male dominated field turn into a female one. This has happened in many other field as well. Take, for example, as any of you who have children will attest, school principles. 25 years ago they were all men; and now the are mainly female.

]]> by: Arthur http://insidecable.blogsome.com/2006/09/19/3284/#comment-15302 Tue, 19 Sep 2006 13:22:14 +0100 http://insidecable.blogsome.com/2006/09/19/3284/#comment-15302 RGL - I believe the author was making The Usual (flawed) Point that good looks cannot coexist with competence and therefore extreme good looks is the only way to explain Anderson's ascendence. What that has to say to the article's main thesis, I could not tell you. But please - "He is about as feminine as Arnold Schwarzenegger." Schwarzenegger should look so good in a tux. RGL - I believe the author was making The Usual (flawed) Point that good looks cannot coexist with competence and therefore extreme good looks is the only way to explain Anderson’s ascendence. What that has to say to the article’s main thesis, I could not tell you.

But please - “He is about as feminine as Arnold Schwarzenegger.” Schwarzenegger should look so good in a tux.

]]> by: RGL http://insidecable.blogsome.com/2006/09/19/3284/#comment-15279 Tue, 19 Sep 2006 10:58:40 +0100 http://insidecable.blogsome.com/2006/09/19/3284/#comment-15279 What's wrong with giving women their just due after telling them they are not our equals? There is a gradual evolutionary process in everything, and this is one of them. I would rather have them than listen to the braying of Chris Matthews, Older man, er Olberman, or Joe Scarborough. Whoever inserted the name of Anderson Cooper there ought to apologize. He is about as feminine as Arnold Schwarzenegger. What’s wrong with giving women their just due after telling them they are not our equals? There is a gradual evolutionary process in everything, and this is one of them. I would rather have them than listen to the braying of Chris Matthews, Older man, er Olberman, or Joe Scarborough.

Whoever inserted the name of Anderson Cooper there ought to apologize. He is about as feminine as Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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