The rule is so simple it should not have to be stated: if you wouldn’t say male, don’t say female; if you wouldn’t say white, don’t say black; if you wouldn’t describe his clothes- shoes- hairdo, don’t describe hers.
What century is this, again??
Oh, and an amazing study from the Project for Excellence in Journalism:
In covering the Iraq war last year, 73 percent of the stories on Fox
News included the opinions of the anchors and journalists reporting
them, a new study says. By contrast, 29 percent of the war reports on
MSNBC and 2 percent of those on CNN included the journalists’ own
views. These findings — the figures were similar for coverage of other
stories — ‘seem to challenge’ Fox’s slogan of ‘we report, you decide’ . . .
Well, I’m stunned.
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