Real Majority, Media Minority: The Costs of Sidelining Women in Reporting
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ISBN: 1567510906 / Publisher: Common Courage Press, July 2002
Analyzes the structure and habits of commerical news media and finds that, while more women are working in the U.S. news media than before, coverage of women's issues is still inadequate
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While some women have become multi-million dollar earners, the perspectives of most women are still sidelined, Flanders documents. And that's not just sexism, she says - it's bad reporting.Real Majority, Media Minority gathers together into one collection almost ten years of Flanders extraordinary essays and interviews analyzing the structure and habits of commercial news media. In an eloquent argument, she says it's time to go beyond simple "bean counting." "What's critical isn't who's telling the story, but how the story's being told."
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