Posted on 01/14/2007 2:16:52 PM PST by Sybeck1
During the closing session of the National Conference for Media Reform in Memphis, actor and activist Jane Fonda urged greater participation and representative of women in mass media on Sunday.
"The media community that is overwhelmingly white is also overwhelming male," the 69-year-old Fonda said. "A media that leaves women out is fundamentally and crucially flawed, because you can’t tell the whole story when you leave out half of the population."
One of the founders of the Women’s Media Center, Fonda works to help increase the number of women in the newsroom as well as the boardroom.
"In the past eight years, there’s been almost no increase of women in the newsrooms in both print and television news," she said. "And the sad thing is, most people don’t even realize there’s a problem... The media didn’t create gender stereotypes, but it reinforces and perpetuates them."
Referring to ex-husband and CNN founder Ted Turner, Fonda said: "We’ve seen a new concentration of media ownership. Heck, I’ve been married to it. I saw it happening in my very own bed."
Van Jones, a West Tennessee native and founder of the San Francisco-based Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, followed Fonda to close the three-day conference.
After criticizing the privately run jail under proposal in Memphis -- a for-profit prison he termed "a huge slave ship on land" that "creates a new Jim Crowe" -- Jones urged the more 1,000 people in attendance to keep pushing for media reform.
Referring several times to the conference as a "movement," Jones told the attendees that they have already changed politics and media and played a crucial role in the Democratic congressional victories in November.
"We have built a progressive infrastructure online that now rivals rightwing talk radio in its impact," Jones said. "We did that in 24 months. That’s an impressive accomplishment in any society, to build a rival communications network to the authoritarians’."
He added: "I expect a lot from this movement."
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Oh, yeah. We need more Oprahization of the media. /sarcasm
Snicker ;)
"Close media reform" are code words for "let's control the first amendment in our favor."
State control is in the air.
'Rick Warren there?
Aren't women in the majority already?
Cerbin: President Bush visits Memphis!
Ohmigosh!
President Bush shocked media reformers tonight with an unannounced visit to Memphis. The commander-in-chief took to the podium in the Cook Convention Center main ballroom and proceeded to hold an impromptu press conference, answering multiple questions by Washington reporter Helen Thomas.
Bush told the crowd, which he acknowledged was full of "hostilers," he was "open to openness" and said the United States should have big media because America is a big country, so it should have a big media. Bigger, for instance, than the media in smaller countries, such as Canada and France.
He defended his policies that some say have disproportionately benefited the rich, telling poor people to "get a job."
At this point, I should fess up. "President Bush" was a dead-on impersonator who just leveled this crowd of skeptics and reformers with laughter.
"The President" made a few comments, then asked for questions. As is the White House custom, he called upon "the lady in the front row."
When Helen Thomas' image came up on jumbotron screens bracketing the stage, the crowd jumped into a standing ovation.
http://blogs.commercialappeal.com/blake/archives/2007/01/cerbin_presiden.html
Seems that the "President" was shown at this little gala.
But a media that is 99% libs is just peachy.
It's perky eye-candy chirp, chirp, chirping, shriek, shriek, shrieking incessantly all day long.
I'll put something like a John Wayne movie on the VCR to reassure myself there's still some low-key drawling male voices to listen to plus some nice-looking firm lips to look at that don't have four tons of crank-case-oil gloss on them.
Leni
They call us authoritarians when it is they who want to censor what is said and restrict who can say what.
It's the same old, tired mantra from the sixties. I'll be glad when those folks pass on.
>"Close media reform" are code words for "let's control the first amendment in our favor."
As in get rid of Rush, Ingraham, Sean, etc
"One of the founders of the Women’s Media Center, Fonda works to help increase the number of women in the newsroom as well as the boardroom.
'In the past eight years, there’s been almost no increase of women in the newsrooms in both print and television news,' she said."
So, she's not been able to add ONE female reporter/journalist type in 8 years? It's a quagmire. She'd better resign her post. ;)
Perhaps 'Hanoi' Jane should pull her head out into the sunshine and watch Fox News.
BTW, where is her outrage and defense of the first single, childless Black Woman to be made Secretary of State attacked by a liberal for being single and childless?
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