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OBJECTIVITY AND WOMEN TV REPORTERS

In the 1950's the management of NBC-TV news declared that women delivering and/or reporting news events are genetically incapable of total objectivity! Today, women reporters and women local TV newscasters are everywhere! Women have come a long way in the news media or have they? To date, you have yet to see a woman anchoring a national network TV newscast day in and day out, and broadcast management positions everywhere are still dominated mostly by men!

Regardless of the reasons why too many women have not yet advanced to the highest levels of broadcast news and management, the question remains! Are women who "make it" in TV news, in general, considered by management to be too emotional "by nature" to be capable of total objectivity?

Once in a movie a world reknown male writer of romance novels was asked, "Being a man, how does he convey the thoughts of women so well in his novels?" His reply was, "It's simple. I just write it from a man's perspective then take out all rationality and accountability!"

SUPPLEMENTAL SOURCE: ABC-TV "THIS WEEK" 9/8/02

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