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Reality bites back : the troubling truth about guilty pleasure TV
Takes a look at how our favorite shows reinforce stereotypes and force-feed us messages about who we're supposed to be and what we're supposed to want. Pozner exposes the commercial and political agendas behind the genre, revealing how the shows negatively impact women, people of color, and future generations.
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Living Her Best Life
Pozner reviews She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan.
Book Review
No Post-Feminists Here
A review of The Fire This Time: Young Activists and the New Feminism edited by Vivien Labaton and Dawn Lundy Martin is presented.
Book Review
The terrorists who aren't in the news, Anti-abortion fanatics spread fear by bombings, murders and assaults, but the media take little notice
Had the criminal, David McMenemy, been Arab or Muslim, this would have been headline news for weeks. But since his target was the Edgerton Women's Health Center, rather than, say, a bank or a police station, media have not called this terrorism - even after three decades of extreme violence by anti-abortion fanatics, mostly fundamentalist Christians who believe they're fighting a holy war. Since 1977, casualties from this war include seven murders, 17 attempted murders, three kidnappings, 152 assaults, 305 completed or attempted bombings and arsons, 375 invasions, 482 stalking incidents, 380 death threats, 618 bomb threats, 100 acid attacks, and 1,254 acts of vandalism, according to the National Abortion Federation. After 9/11, Planned Parenthood and other abortion rights groups received 554 envelopes containing white powder and messages like, \"You have been exposed to anthrax. ... We are going to kill all of you.\" They were signed by the Army of God, a group that hosts Scripture-filled Web pages for \"Anti-Abortion Heroes of the Faith\" including minister Paul Hill, Michael Griffin and James Kopp, all convicted of murdering abortion providers, and a convicted clinic bomber, the Rev. Michael Bray. Another of their \"martyrs,\" Clayton Waagner, mailed anthrax letters while a fugitive on the FBI's 10 most wanted list for anti-abortion related crimes.
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EYE ON THE MEDIA / Missing Since 9-11: Women's Voices
Nor is reality reflected on the networks' political-debate shows, which frame and influence the public debate. According to a study released last week by the White House Project, a nonpartisan women's leadership group, women were just 11 percent of guests and 7 percent of repeat interviewees on five Sunday morning talk shows on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN and FOX between January 2000, and June 2001. Roundtable participants were not counted as guests, nor were journalists connected to the network. If producers are gunning for committee chairs or party leaders, they could book guests like Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Democratic whip and ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, or Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) or Dianne Feinstein (D- Calif.), who chair Senate committees on terrorism. They're certainly qualified for the journalistic hotseat - but they're not being called. John Wayne wannabes, bombastic and blue-suited, are. Beyond politicians, the study found that female guests were systemically underrepresented in every category - from elected, government and foreign officials to media representatives and private professionals - disproportionately to their presence in those fields. Take political activists: I've yet to hear one good reason why the Rev. Jerry Falwell got six chances to spread his anti-feminist, anti- gay gospel on these shows, and NAACP President Kweisi Mfume was able to advocate for civil rights on five occasions - yet Feminist Majority President Ellie Smeal and Human Rights Campaign President Elizabeth Birch, both fiery guests, appeared once each.
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On My Bookshelf
Pozner describes the books she has been reading lately. After reading books on corporate America and condemnations of US journalism, she picked up Good News: Yet more relentlessly optimistic political cartoons, self-published by freelancer Mikhaela B. Reid.
Book Review
Not All Domestic Violence Studies Are Created Equal
Pozner discusses the inequality in domestic violence studies. He notes what makes some surveys more scientific than others, and refers to several articles that discuss the validity and measurability of several studies.
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