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A feminist dream team is doing its best to get more women's views into the news. Old friends Gloria Steinem and Jane Fonda visited the Sun-Times Wednesday as new business partners in the New York-based Women's Media Center. They want to serve as a resource for journalists, they said, and influence the coverage of issues critical to women. And it's all critical, noted Steinem. "Every issue is a woman's issue," she told the Sun-Times editorial board. There aren't just two sides to every story, she said, although cable news has gotten into the habit of scheduling two (male) talking heads...

"US actress Jane Fonda(R) hugs fellow actress Susan Sarandon after she addressed an anti-war demonstration on the National Mall in Washington as actor Sean Penn(L) looks on. Fonda took the stage at her first anti-war demonstration since Vietnam as tens of thousands demanded that Congress cut off funds for the Iraq war." "Actress and anti-war advocate Jane Fonda, right, shares a laugh and a hug with actor Sean Penn, as Eve Ensler, left, looks on at the U.S. Navy Memorial as they participate in a women's peace rally to voice their opposition to the war in Iraq, Saturday Jan....

When I was a young teenager, the boys loved the sexy Jane Fonda in Barbarella. After I became an American soldier and a Vietnam veteran, she was "Hanoi Jane" to all of us. We were disgusted when she became a revolutionary and a communist sympathizer who sat on North Vietnamese anti-aircraft guns and gave aid and comfort to our enemy. Now Hanoi Jane has become "Jihad Jane," and she has decided that the terrorists of the world who cut off people's heads and blow themselves up to kill innocent men, women and children are not as bad as the Americans...