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Re: SO where are the women these days?
Donna wrote
>
> 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"?
Well, there's Arnie Arneson currently on WKXL & WNTK in N.H. and
syndicated to a couple of Mass. stations. Not only female, but rather
liberal too. Whether or not you agree with her viewpoints, she's
well-informed and does a good show. The hope is that with satellite
distribution her show will catch on with stations looking for something
other than a conservative male host.
Are you proposing we have a quota system? It seems that few female talk
hosts seem to "connect" with an audience. One exception is Dr. Laura, and
witness the negative comments SHE gets on this list