Virginia Slims

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Sexist Crap

“Now that I don’t have to worry about you quoting me, I can hit on you.”

—A Wall Streeter to a female financial journalist at a party, after hearing she didn’t write about his firm. From “Said to Lady Journos,” compiling some of the most egregious comments tossed at women as they try to do their jobs.

• Editorial Comment: Lovely. We’ve come a long way, baby!










• Yesterday’s WORD: Did you miss yesterday’s WORDs on newspapers and Old Fartism from writer Jon Katz? Click here.  

News from USU’s award-winning student news site, The Hard News Café
• Crowd packs County Council hearing, demands action for better air, by Paul Christiansen

• CNN reporter comes to USU to talk about compassionate journalism, by Danielle Manley

• Coughing Cache residents protest Council inaction on air pollution, by Dani Hayes

• ATV News: Old Main Hill, napping Aggies, sports and weather, anchored by Courtney Robinson and Kelton Wells• Paradise wants $80,000 from RAPZ tax fund for work on park, by Dawn Otterby
• Under the sea . . . USU students dredge up biotech solution for implants, by Mary Taggart, Sam Bennion, Landon Kohler, Hannah Heninger and Amanda Ahlman
• Ouch! Overcrowded Nelson Fieldhouse poses threat to students? by Clayton Leuba, Tessa Italasano, Ileana Borunda and Cale Patterson
• Aggie ice cream lobbies Legislature with creamy treats, by Zach Waxler, Bradley Thatcher, Jordan Groff and Caesarea Kritz
• USU hockey, en route to nationals, awaits opponents to qualify, by Ileana Borunda, Clayton Leuba, Tessa Italasano and Cale Patterson
• Logan draws line in the air to combat valley air pollution health risks, by Jessica Hinrichs, Grady Smith, Seth Merrill and Teresa Gutierrez
• Logan residents are ready to go wild for buffalo wings, by Cameron Etherington, Rebecca Walker, Connor Comeau, Lilibeth Salvador and McCall Bulloch
• Friends of the Elderly club connects with seniors on Presidents Day, by Tricia Olson, McCarty Hatfield, Rhys Stephens, Brooke Larsen and Landon Graham

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Old Fartism

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Those Were the Days

“Unable to embrace change or face the future, they have opted instead to romanticize the past. After decades of this raging Old Fartism, newspapers no longer have any younger readers to speak of, nor does anybody in America under the age of 40 notice or care what’s happening at the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, or the Washington Post.”

 

—Jon Katz, media critic, Wired magazine, 1998

• Editorial Comment: Speaking of quaint, anybody remember The Book?

• Yesterday’s WORD: Did you miss yesterday’s WORDs on pigs, swill and advertising from George Orwell? Click here.
 

News from USU’s award-winning student news site, The Hard News Café
• TODAY! CNN’s Jessica Ravitz comes to USU for Morris Media & Society Lecture on March 27 
• ATV News: Old Main Hill, napping Aggies, sports and weather, anchored by Courtney Robinson and Kelton Wells
• Under the sea . . . USU students dredge up biotech solution for implants, by Mary Taggart, Sam Bennion, Landon Kohler, Hannah Heninger and Amanda Ahlman
• Ouch! Overcrowded Nelson Fieldhouse poses threat to students? by Clayton Leuba, Tessa Italasano, Ileana Borunda and Cale Patterson
• Aggie ice cream lobbies Legislature with creamy treats, by Zach Waxler, Bradley Thatcher, Jordan Groff and Caesarea Kritz
• USU hockey, en route to nationals, awaits opponents to qualify, by Ileana Borunda, Clayton Leuba, Tessa Italasano and Cale Patterson
• Logan draws line in the air to combat valley air pollution health risks, by Jessica Hinrichs, Grady Smith, Seth Merrill and Teresa Gutierrez
• Logan residents are ready to go wild for buffalo wings, by Cameron Etherington, Rebecca Walker, Connor Comeau, Lilibeth Salvador and McCall Bulloch
• Friends of the Elderly club connects with seniors on Presidents Day, by Tricia Olson, McCarty Hatfield, Rhys Stephens, Brooke Larsen and Landon Graham

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Come and Get It!

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Pig Feed 

“Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill pail.” 

—George Orwell (1903-1950), writer  (Thanks to alert WORDster Mike Andrews)

• Editorial Comment: Sooo-eeee!



• Yesterday’s WORD: Did you miss yesterday’s WORDs on fact-checking from Brooke Gladstone, host of WNYC's “On the Media” show on National Public Radio? Click here.
 

News from USU’s award-winning student news site, The Hard News Café
• THIS WEEK! CNN’s Jessica Ravitz comes to USU for Morris Media & Society Lecture on March 27 
• ATV News: Old Main Hill, napping Aggies, sports and weather, anchored by Courtney Robinson and Kelton Wells
• Under the sea . . . USU students dredge up biotech solution for implants, by Mary Taggart, Sam Bennion, Landon Kohler, Hannah Heninger and Amanda Ahlman
• Ouch! Overcrowded Nelson Fieldhouse poses threat to students? by Clayton Leuba, Tessa Italasano, Ileana Borunda and Cale Patterson
• Aggie ice cream lobbies Legislature with creamy treats, by Zach Waxler, Bradley Thatcher, Jordan Groff and Caesarea Kritz
• USU hockey, en route to nationals, awaits opponents to qualify, by Ileana Borunda, Clayton Leuba, Tessa Italasano and Cale Patterson
• Logan draws line in the air to combat valley air pollution health risks, by Jessica Hinrichs, Grady Smith, Seth Merrill and Teresa Gutierrez
• Logan residents are ready to go wild for buffalo wings, by Cameron Etherington, Rebecca Walker, Connor Comeau, Lilibeth Salvador and McCall Bulloch
• Friends of the Elderly club connects with seniors on Presidents Day, by Tricia Olson, McCarty Hatfield, Rhys Stephens, Brooke Larsen and Landon Graham
• Fun Park refocuses on core service: Fun, by Curtis Lundstrom
• CVTD and Richmond City Council discuss improving bus service, by Shayna Marcure
• Providence residents ask why change west end of 200 South? by Paul Christiansen
• 50¢ more for Aggie Blue Bikes, but fee board rejects other requests, by Kyle Heywood
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Get it Rght!

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Fact-Checking 

BROOKE GLADSTONE: When a Time Magazine editor hired its first fact-checkers back in the twenties, they were exclusively young women.

CRAIG SILVERMAN:  Because while he considered this fact-checking to be important, it wasn’t so important that he would hire men to do it.

BROOKE GLADSTONE:  He sent a memo around about the ethos of fact checking. He says, “Any bright girl who really applies herself to the handling of the checking problem can have a very pleasant time with it, and fill the week with happy moments and memorable occasions. The most important thing to remember in checking is that the writer is your natural enemy. He is trying to see how much he can get away with.”

—Brooke Gladstone, host, “On the Media,” with Craig Silverman of “Regret the Error,” discussing fact-checking in the press, WNYC. Listen or read transcript. Feb. 15, 2013

• Editorial Comment: Facts, schmacts. Tell me what you feel in your gut.

• Yesterday’s WORD: Did you miss yesterday’s WORDs on the 50th anniversary of Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique from writer Liza Donnelly? Click here.
 

News from USU’s award-winning student news site, The Hard News Café
• NEXT WEEK! CNN’s Jessica Ravitz comes to USU for Morris Media & Society Lecture on March 27 
• Providence residents ask why change west end of 200 South? by Paul Christiansen
• 50¢ more for Aggie Blue Bikes, but fee board rejects other requests, by Kyle Heywood 
• Banquet-goers go hungry to raise awareness, combat poverty, by McCall Bulloch 
• School assembly morphs into surprise rock concert with a message, by Jessica Sonderegger
• Aggie TV News (2/12/13)—Reaction to Pope retirement, $3M gift, weather & sports, anchored by Emily Landeen and Kelton Wells 
 
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Betty Friedan

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Mystique

“[T]he problems for women are not just American; they are global. Betty Friedan spoke of the ‘problem that has no name’ when she wrote about the American housewife’s unhappiness. . . . Many women around the world still live in a culture that does not allow them to speak of what is wrong with their situation, whether it has a name or not. They cannot speak up about rape, genital mutilation, abuse, objectification, harassment, arranged marriage, low pay, poverty. 

“Both men and women can speak out for those who feel too endangered to do so themselves. This is what feminism is.”

—Liza Donnelly, writer, “On The 50th Anniversary of ‘The Feminine Mystique,’ Is There Still A ‘Problem That Has No Name?’” Forbes, Feb. 18, 2013
Video Roundtable: Gail Collins and “The Feminine Mystique, 50 Years Later, The New York Times, Feb. 12, 2013 

• Editorial Comment: Sounds a lot like common sense and human compassion.

• Yesterday’s WORD: Did you miss yesterday’s WORDs from former Vice President Dick Cheney, on complaining about the press? Click here.
 

News from USU’s award-winning student news site, The Hard News Café
• NEXT WEEK! CNN’s Jessica Ravitz comes to USU for Morris Media & Society Lecture on March 27 
• Providence residents ask why change west end of 200 South? by Paul Christiansen
• 50¢ more for Aggie Blue Bikes, but fee board rejects other requests, by Kyle Heywood 
• Banquet-goers go hungry to raise awareness, combat poverty, by McCall Bulloch 
• School assembly morphs into surprise rock concert with a message, by Jessica Sonderegger
• Aggie TV News (2/12/13)—Reaction to Pope retirement, $3M gift, weather & sports, anchored by Emily Landeen and Kelton Wells 
• Lights out? Cause of campus power outage still unclear, by Shayna Marcure
• Graphic design professor Alan Hashimoto dies in department office

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Constitutionally Protected

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Freedom to Complain

“It’s easy to complain about the press—I’ve been doing it for a good part of my career. It’s part of what goes with a free society.”

—Dick Cheney, 46th vice president, 2004

• Editorial Comment: Your suggestions, Mr. Vice President?


• Yesterday’s WORD: Did you miss yesterday’s WORDs from ice photographer extraordinaire James Balog, on brains? Click here.
 

News from USU’s award-winning student news site, The Hard News Café
• NEXT WEEK! CNN’s Jessica Ravitz comes to USU for Morris Media & Society Lecture on March 27 
• 50¢ more for Aggie Blue Bikes, but fee board rejects other requests, by Kyle Heywood 
• Banquet-goers go hungry to raise awareness, combat poverty, by McCall Bulloch 
• School assembly morphs into surprise rock concert with a message, by Jessica Sonderegger
• Aggie TV News (2/12/13)—Reaction to Pope retirement, $3M gift, weather & sports, anchored by Emily Landeen and Kelton Wells 
• Lights out? Cause of campus power outage still unclear, by Shayna Marcure
• Graphic design professor Alan Hashimoto dies in department office

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