Norah O’Donnell on Industry Upheaval, Sexism in Media, and Her Future

ELLE US ^ | 11//27/25 | Mattie Kahn

[1Old Pro]

Even so, farewells are bittersweet and this one has been made more so because of her replacements. “I think it’s important to have women in these lead anchor chairs, and I think it is a setback that it’s going to be all men,” O’Donnell says.

Later, she adds, “I think there are incredible opportunities for women in journalism. But I think it would be a disservice to suggest, especially to young women who are entering the workforce, that they’re not going to encounter sexism and potentially harassment. It exists. It does. And it exists even for the most powerful women in business, media, and politics.”

[1Old Pro]

Norah sees EVERYTHING through feminist glasses that's sees sexism in everything. So it's not a surprise she was LAST in the network nightly news ratings, people don't like feminist activists pretending to report news.

Same for her morning counterpart, Gayle King on CBS Mornings (for Blacks) as everything is seen as racist and every news story has a African American victim slant.

[bray]

Are there any real men on the Establishmedia?

[1Old Pro]

Are there any real men on the Establishmedia?

Mostly metrosexuals.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Norah needs to go home and start baking cookies.

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[j.havenfarm]

***ahem*** and David Muir

[V_TWIN]

Just go away already.

Soon to be seen....or not, at pmsnbc.

[albie]

Norah needs to go to sammich making school

[1Old Pro]

Norah needs to go home and start baking cookies.

She still thinks she has influence and will stay with CBS as an analyst or some crock. Nobody would hire her.

[1Old Pro]

Norah needs to go to sammich making school

I'm sure her chef husband does all the housework, that's what men married to feminists do. OH, and they have "feelings".

[HYPOCRACY]

Only in America can an 80 IQ ditzy piece of trash make millions as a newsreader. Must be sexism.

[1Old Pro]

***ahem*** and David Muir

Precisely

[1Old Pro]

Only in America can an 80 IQ ditzy piece of trash make millions as a newsreader. Must be sexism.

I think she thinks she got hired because of her brain.

[pburiak]

She was on MSNBC about 15-20 years ago as I remember.

Thought she was kind of hot back in the day.

[V_TWIN]

“Only in America can an 80 IQ ditzy piece of trash make millions as a newsreader”

Reminds me of these multimillionaire black athletes screaming racism.

[basalt]

they can cry all they want, but its the sound of a womans voice talkinjg about serious issues thats their problem. They’ve tried em all, Sawyer, Couric, Chung etc...and the ratings crater everytime. Just a fact.

[Ann Archy]

Norah has DEAD EYES......SAD WOMAN.

[jeffc]

She thinks it’s OK to have all women anchors, but not men? How progressive of her...

[1Old Pro]

Norah has DEAD EYES......SAD WOMAN.

Accurate observation

[rlmorel]

She did! Both of them!