Re: SO where are the women these days?

[Aaron Read <aread@speakeasy.net>]

I wrote to Mark about how he didn't mention anything in public 
radio.   While Boston has little in the way of female talk show hosts, 
there's Terry Gross on NPR's Fresh Air (sort of) and Laura Knoy on NHPR's 
"The Exchange", and also "The Diane Rehm Show" also airing on NHPR and 
elsewhere.


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Aaron "Bishop" Read             aread@speakeasy.net
FriedBagels Consulting          AOL-IM: readaaron
http://www.friedbagels.com      Boston, MA


At 03:17 PM 6/4/2003, tony schinella wrote:
>Funny you should mention that. I was thinking that the removal of
>McCarthy/Vigue from WRKO eliminated two of the three non-syndicated women on
>talk radio in Boston, the other being Marg Eagan. Although, Rachel Cohen and
>Virginia Buckingham are editorial editors at the Boston Herald and there are
>a lot of editors and columnists who are female the Herald and CNC.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Donna Halper" <dlh@donnahalper.com>
>To: <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 3:01 PM
>Subject: SO where are the women these days?
>
>
> > I'm no fan of Mark Jurkowitz-- I like Dan Kennedy's style of media
> > criticism much better-- but Mark is discussing an important topic in
> > today's Globe:  the lack of women's voices and viewpoints on talk
> > radio.
> >
>http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/155/living/Examining_women_s_radio_silence
>P.shtml
> >
> > Caryl Rivers wrote about this on Alternet about a month ago, noting the
> > lack of women on newspaper editorial pages.  Is this the new
> > conservativism-- drive women back to the private sphere, away from
>anywhere
> > they might influence public discourse, leaving talk shows free to once
> > again be dominated by "angry white males"?