Posted on 06/22/2019 8:53:45 AM PDT by simpson96
Five anchorwomen at NY1, one of the country’s most prominent local news channels, sued the network on Wednesday over age and gender discrimination, alleging a systematic effort by managers to force them off the air in favor of younger, less experienced hosts.
The suit, filed in Federal District Court in Manhattan, portrays a newsroom at odds with the friendly image that has made NY1 a beloved institution among New Yorkers. And it publicized tensions that have long afflicted the TV news business, where older women’s careers often fade as male counterparts thrive.
The plaintiffs range in age from 40 to 61 and include Roma Torre, one of the channel’s longest-serving anchors. “We feel we are being railroaded out of the place,” Ms. Torre said in an interview. “Men age on TV with a sense of gravitas, and we as women have an expiration date.”
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I love Harris Faulkner, her lower teef are ever
so perfectly imperfect!
I’d hit the one at seven o’clock,
the rest are past their ‘use by’ date.
Hey, they all look good to me, but then I’m 72.
Oh yeah, been doing keto/carnivore the last year. There are unspoken benefits/issues.
In any case, local news is an oxymoron.
I’m 76 and looking is all I can do.
So I might as well be persnickety,
for all the good it does. ;)
My "solution" is to let TV stations hire and fire as they please, according to their judgement as to how best to attract viewers.
As I said, women who were explicitly hired as "eye candy", rather than for their incisive analytical skills, run the risk of being let go when they no longer qualify under the rationale they were hired for.
Again: “My “solution” is to let TV stations hire and fire as they please, according to their judgement as to how best to attract viewers.”
In other words, the government should not get involved in business decisions on who to hire or fire, and what criteria they use to make their decisions.
And yes, I understand that my viewpoint runs contrary to current federal laws and regulations. My viewpoint is that such laws and regulations should be cancelled, and if a business owner decides staff his business entirely with transgender dwarfs, then that is his business. And if his decision results in his business failing, then the government should not bail him out either.
Liberals are angry, they are smiling, usually they scowl.
I suspect that it's more like somebody decided that having to look at these women was repelling viewers. Time will tell if they were correct.
Women and men are different. They have different roles, and are judged by different criteria.
Through the ages, women's purpose was to produce healthy babies. Men are maximally attracted to the qualities which indicate a woman will be able to produce healthy babies: youth, health, physical fitness (of the sort that contributes to fertility -- extreme lack of body fat leads to loss of fertility).
Men, on the other hand, are judged by their ability to provide resources to a mother, and to contribute good genes which will produce sons who will likewise attract women in the next generation.
Older, overweight women are unattractive to men. Out-of-shape men in low-status dead-end jobs are even more unattractive to women.
It's worse for men of below-average desirability. A man is likely to go out with a woman he finds less than ideal. A woman is more likely to stay home than go out with a man she regards as being below her standards. Women are also more likely to prefer to share a highly desirable man, than have a loser all to herself.
In the entertainment industry, it happens routinely (and let's face it, TV news is really entertainment these days)
In regular jobs? Not so much. When I go to get accounting work done, I don't care what the accountant looks like, as long as the numbers come out good.
When was the last time a man was fired simply because he got old and fat and not so handsome anymore?
Old and fat men get laid off routinely. At 50, your probability of needing expensive medical care goes up, so companies look for ways to get rid of older men, and try not to hire them. Especially in the tech field.
There are kind decent men out there (I'm taken, though). A lot of them may be bald, short, and/or heavy. Men who are kind, decent, AND tall and handsome have lots of women competing for them.
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