Journalism is
suffering mightily in the effort of news
organizations to Barbiize the "talent." It's no longer about presenting the news with
journalistic skill, it's how short can the skirt be, how plunging the neckline
and how closely does the anchorette look like Barbi either blond, brunette or
redhead?
I'll be the first to
admit that a beautiful woman turns my head, but the journalism element is hard
to take when I (as a former journalist) know full well that there are some
really excellent female journalists out there
who can really report with clarity and without bias and who don't have their heads thrust fully up
Obama's behind.
No one is accusing
Candy Crowley of being in the "Barbi" brigade, but then Candy Crowley
is as profoundly and tediously left as Michael Savage and Ed Schultz are
tediously yet profoundly off the wall. Crowley's problem is that she simply
won't admit that she is biased in the extreme with her head thrust fully, as
described in the previous paragraph.
There is, of course
the other example on non-Barbiism…..who graced, or to tell the truth,
demolished my television screen for 50 years, Helen Thomas. Sorry ladies, she was one ugly woman. Actually, I'm still not totally convinced yet
she was human much less female.
Unfortunately, she, like Crowley, was a hopelessly committed leftist. But, I digress.
Lately, I've been
catching clips of local female news anchors and reporters from across the
county. Frequently, the stories have
been political in nature, but the Crowley/Thomas biases were not evident, other
than in the choice of stories which were probably made by a faceless producer
anyway. Most of the women were not in
the top "Barbi" echelon but were and are excellent reporters. I do not have to have "halos"
around my women's faces to appreciate the quality of their thinking.
The cable news
organizations are the worst, with Fox in this case leading the way. On "The Five" you have to have the
"newsbabe" in the shortest skirt and longest hair with the tightest
fitting material with the most leg exposure sitting on the outside of the group
flaunting sex to the max with directors making sure the shots get as much of that skin as possible.
There is no question
that men are officially two-headed. Take
that as I know you will. But when it
comes to my news appetite please can't I
have my news presented by the least biased, most observant, good writing female reporters (in addition to
male reporters) instead of a never ending
flow of the current "Miley Cyrus" females newscasters. Pretty Please!!!!
