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thepoliticalnotebook:

Among 35 major national print publications, including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, men had 81 percent of the quotes in stories about abortion, the research group said Thursday, while women had 12 percent, and organizations had 7 percent.

In stories about birth control, men scored 75 percent of the quotes, with women getting 19 percent and organizations getting 6 percent. Stories about Planned Parenthood had a similar ratio, with men getting 67 percent, women getting 26 percent, and organizations getting 7 percent.

Women fared a bit better in stories about women’s rights, getting 31 percent of the quotes compared with 52 percent for men and 17 percent for organizations.

— Men Rule Media Coverage of Women’s News - The Daily Beast (via librariesandlemonade)

thedailybeast.com

  • What I wrote: "This timeline takes into account the traditional summer news cycle, which includes a period of relative inactivity around the July 4 holiday. Publicity for product launches is not advised during that period."
  • What I meant: No one -- not me, not you, and certainly not journalists -- wants to work around the Fourth of July, so let's leave reporters alone for awhile.
cjr.org: Women wrote 20 percent of op-eds in the nation’s leading newspapers—The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal—between September 15 and December 7, 2011, according to a byline survey conducted by Taryn Yaeger of The OpEd Project, an organization that aims to diversify public debate. … And women were practically absent in the debate of many hard news subjects, with their opinions accounting for 11 percent of commentaries on the economy, 13 percent on international politics, 14 percent on social action and 16 percent on security. Perhaps just as striking, women produced just over half—53 percent—of commentaries on “women’s issues.”

cjr.org:

Women wrote 20 percent of op-eds in the nation’s leading newspapers—The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal—between September 15 and December 7, 2011, according to a byline survey conducted by Taryn Yaeger of The OpEd Project, an organization that aims to diversify public debate. …

And women were practically absent in the debate of many hard news subjects, with their opinions accounting for 11 percent of commentaries on the economy, 13 percent on international politics, 14 percent on social action and 16 percent on security. Perhaps just as striking, women produced just over half—53 percent—of commentaries on “women’s issues.”

A petition to stop giving Donald Trump airtime

Someone filed this petition with change.org an hour ago.

Journalism school, you guise.

Journalism school, you guise.

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Forget That Survey. Here's Why Journalism Is The Best Job Ever.

We understand the values of mainstream journalists, including the effort to report both sides of a story. But a balanced treatment of an unbalanced phenomenon distorts reality. If the political dynamics of Washington are unlikely to change anytime soon, at least we should change the way that reality is portrayed to the public.
Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein: Let’s just say it: The Republicans are the problem.
inothernews: THE LIBERAL MEDIA.

inothernews:

THE LIBERAL MEDIA.

inothernews