Typical viewpoint of a female investigative journalist?

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• shadowcat

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  13 years ago

  Here is another one
  
  http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20…
• Clubber

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  13 years ago

  It never ends!!!
• m00tpoint

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  13 years ago

  Wow! As a woman, I am SOOOOO glad that the author of that story told me absolutely nothing about why other women go to clubs. Instead she only share HER slant an thoughts. She has no idea why I go to the clubs with my husband. This article is exactly what is wrong with journalism on all fronts. Where is the objective reporting, the stating of facts to allow the reader to make their own decision on how they feel or believe about a topic? Now, I understand this is an opinion piece but that should be clearly stated and not set up as a scientific soap box for one woman.
  
  As a fellow woman, I am sorry that society and her personal relationships have so warped her that she cannot appreciate other women who are attractive. Even outside of a club, I have no problem recognizing and acknowledging that other women are attractive. In fact, I regularly comment on it. From her word choices and assessments, I personally believe she has trouble with acknowledging sexuality in any form.
  
  I wonder if any female writer really would consider that some women (and men) elect to go to clubs because of the sexually charged atmosphere. That is certainly part of it for us. In this particular place one does not need to hide or squelch their sexuality but is encouraged to embrace it and relish it. There is no "brown wrapping paper cover" or facade on what the draw in the club is. THAT is part of why I go. "You want to think about sex every few minute? GOOD! You're supposed to!"
  
  I go because I like to see how the dancers move a paricular way or do something that I might not have thought of. I like to see how my husband (and the other male customers) reacts when a dancer moves a particular way or to get an idea of what else I could try that he might find sexy.
  
  I go because I appreciate and understand that a GOOD pole dancer is incredibly strong and practices a lot. I recognize and appreciate the work that goes into staying on top of one's game and coming up with new and different pole trick combinations to set one apart from other dancers. It's part of marketing. Just like a gimmick or costume choice.
  
  I go because I was curious as to how I looked compared to other women. Unlike boys in the shower room at gym, girls (at least when I was of that age0 don't get to see what other women look like outside of breast size. My husband cracked up laughing the first time I went and got a flash of pussy because I said, "You mean they all look different?" which of course turned into a discussion of how they felt different or the same. I had a huge curiosity of how smaller breasts felt because I had always been amply endowed. It's ok to look or even ask to touch there.
  
  I go because I like buying and wearing outfits that are too revealing for mainstream dinner and a movie nights. I like wearing them because they play up my best feature and downplay my not-so-great ones. I like going because I like seeing my husband watching a dancer and then catch him looking at me or saying, "She's pretty but you have better tits." (To which I usually point out that her ass is much better.....LOL)
  
  I go because I like the rush of compliments and looks I get when I go. My husband says he likes to go because we gets jealous looks of "DAMN! Lucky sucker. He's here with his wife!" looks. The first time I ever went to a club at all a complete stranger at a table next to us bought a table dance for me. I had no clue what to expect but both he and my husband seemed to enjoy it so that made it fun for me. I've also made restroom trips only to be stopped on the way back to the table and asked if I was "with" the guy I was sitting with. HUGE ego boost for an almost 50 year old woman.
  
  I can't abide people who presume to KNOW why someone else does something or how they think or feel. People who are supposed to be JOURNALISTS are the worst because they are supposed to know and undertand that personal agendas and slanting have no place in real reporting or journalism. If I want to know what someone thinks or how they feel or why they did something, I will ask. Damn I am tired of the media, in any form, thinking they get to tell me how I should feel about anything!
  
  Sorry....coming down off my soapbox for a while now......
  
  mrs m00tpoint
• Dudester

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  13 years ago

  Both articles written by raging feminists. Their editors might as well should have asked a male to write about what it's like to go through menstruation.
  
  Oh wait....oh snap...
  
  A guy couldn't have written an article because pretty much every single newsroom has been taken over by females. Eighty years ago, men ruled newsrooms, but men are going the way of the dinosaur in the news business. It's why when you watch a 30 minute news broadcast, you get about five minutes of hard news, and twenty five minutes of who is designing Princess Kate's gowns, or who is sleeping with Brad Pitt, etc. etc.
• m00tpoint

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  13 years ago

  You don't get any hard NEWS at all, Dudester. Remember Dan Rather? He was not female. Even what is presented as news is so laden with opinion that it is sickening.
  
  Curious as to where you get your "pretty much every single newsroom has been taken over by females" comment. Are you in the industry? My dad used to work at a local television station (he was a communicatons specialist in the Navy before he re-upped after a brief hiatus) and at least then it was a predominantly male field.
• m00tpoint

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  13 years ago

  oh, and that wasn't 80 yrs ago. LOL
  
  I think our local stations in Chicago at least are still mainly male driven. Not that their NEWS is any more accurate or different.....
  
  Maybe it is a case of the target audience has changed?
  
• Dudester

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  13 years ago

  No, go into the newsrooms. It's not just the anchors, also count the reporters, the news writers, the behind the scenes producers, the camera operators (most cameras are now remote controlled), and the news directors.
  
  Here in Houston, we have Channel 2, 11, 13, and 26 with newsrooms. Those four newsrooms all have female directors.
• georgmicrodong

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  13 years ago

  *Everybody* is biased. That's the nature of human beings. The problem lies not with biased people, but people who believe that their biases somehow qualify as laws of nature.
• gatorfan

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  13 years ago

  What's a newspaper? the printy paper used to wrap shit when you have to move
• deogol

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  13 years ago

  Newspaper is poor mans christmas wrap from what I hear.
• m00tpoint

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  13 years ago

  GMD - Agree absolutely!
  
  Dudester - interesting about Houston. That is not the case here in Chicago. It is 50/50 here. I just checked. Doubly interesting is that here in Chicago they are also 50% Latino. And, I am certain with the exception of FOX, 100% Democrats. LOL