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		<title>&#039;Why Women Need to Be at the Freaking Table&#039;</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/08/16/why-women-need-to-be-at-the-freaking-table/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 10:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Voiles</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Media Business]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Women In Media &#38; News has reposted Veronica Arreola's (8/15/09) elucidation of exactly "why women need to be at the freaking table, in the newsroom and holding the editor’s red pen." To her, "it's just as simple as women see things differently. Not better, not worse, just differently":
The latest example is the WaPo "Mouthpiece Theater" [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Women In Media &amp; News</strong> has <a href="http://www.vivalafeminista.com/2009/08/this-is-why-we-need-more-women-in-media.html" target="_blank">reposted</a> Veronica Arreola's (<a href="http://www.wimnonline.org/WIMNsVoicesBlog/2009/08/15/this-is-why-we-need-more-women-in-media/" target="_blank">8/15/09</a>) elucidation of exactly "why women need to be at the freaking table, in the newsroom and holding the editor’s red pen." To her, "it's just as simple as women see things differently. Not better, not worse, just differently":</p>
<blockquote><p>The latest example is the <strong>WaPo</strong> "Mouthpiece Theater" <a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/08/07/snarky-wapo-er-surprised-by-the-ferocity-out-there/">fiasco</a> that ended with <strong>WaPo</strong> pulling the plug. Two men thought that calling the secretary of State a "bitch" was funny. Not only was it not funny, and not because the joke flopped, but it's old and tired. Seriously, guys, can’t you come up with something new? So some of us angry feminists wrote a letter demanding an apology. And gosh darn it, it freaking <a href="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/141797/washington_post_kills_offensive_video_series%3B_cillizza_apologizes/" target="_blank">worked</a>! OK, we didn't get two <a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/08/09/wapo-screw-you-video-follows-mad-bitch-offense/">full apologies</a>, but hey, no more crappy videos from <strong>WaPo</strong>…for now....</p>
<p>Of course, we can't be sure that if a random woman at <strong>WaPo</strong> had screened the video beforehand, [she] would have said, "Dude…we can't air that." Why? Because some women, I used to be one of them, know that there is power in being "one of the guys." You are constantly proving that you need to be where you are and you choose your battles. Is sticking up for Hillary Clinton worth it? Maybe? Maybe not.</p></blockquote>
<p>"But," <a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2008/11/17/expecting-transphobia-again/">Arreola</a> maintains, "women have different perspectives on things. We know that. And as I said before, it's <em>different</em>,<em> </em>not better, not worse."</p>
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		<title>WaPo &#039;Screw-You&#039; Video Follows &#039;Mad Bitch&#039; Offense</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/08/09/wapo-screw-you-video-follows-mad-bitch-offense/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 02:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Voiles</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Adele M. Stan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bitch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Cillizza]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marcus Brauchli]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest Women In Media &#38; News blogger Adele M. Stan (8/5/09) has some more to say about the WashingtonPost.com's "now-infamous 'Mad Bitch' video":
Last Friday, Talking Points Memo's Brian Beutler shone a light on a video produced by the Washington Post that featured one of the two columnists hosting the piece suggesting that, at a future [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Guest <strong>Women In Media &amp; News</strong> blogger Adele M. Stan (<a href="http://www.wimnonline.org/WIMNsVoicesBlog/2009/08/05/responding-to-womens-concerns-washington-post-kills-offensive-video-series-cillizza-apologizes-milbank-whines/" target="_blank">8/5/09</a>) has some more to say about the <strong>WashingtonPost.com</strong>'s "now-infamous 'Mad Bitch' video":</p>
<blockquote><p>Last Friday, <strong>Talking Points Memo</strong>'s Brian Beutler <a href="http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/07/in-beer-summit-spoof-milbank-suggests-hillary-drink-mad-bitch-beer.php" target="_blank">shone a light</a> on a <a href="http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200907310026" target="_blank">video</a> produced by the <strong>Washington Post</strong> that featured one of the two columnists hosting the piece suggesting that, at a future White House beer summit, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton be given a brew called "Mad Bitch." Then all hell broke loose.</p>
<p>The <strong>Post</strong> apparently thought it could fix the problem by simply pulling the video. A note was posted above the hole where the video used to be, reading that the piece had been removed because it contained material that was "inappropriate" for the <strong>Post</strong> website. As if it had landed there from Mars. As if it hadn't been written and produced in the <strong>Washington Post</strong> building by <strong>Washington Post</strong> staffers.<br />
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Then, yesterday, the two columnists, Chris Cillizza and Dana Milbank, had the effrontery to post what amounts to a "screw-you" <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2009/07/06/VI2009070601109.html" target="_blank">response video</a> to the criticism they had received from bloggers.</p></blockquote>
<p>Stan reports that, in the fallout, "the series has been canceled," but "Milbank remains pretty unrepentant, instead <a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/08/07/snarky-wapo-er-surprised-by-the-ferocity-out-there/">whining</a> about the drubbing he took at the hands of blogosphere denizens."</p>
<p>Even after receiving a <a href="http://www.centerfornewwords.org/wam/wapoletter.php" target="_blank">critical letter</a> signed by Stan, Jennifer Pozman, Katha Pollitt and many others, <strong>Post</strong> executive editor Marcus "Brauchli, for his part, did not exactly apologize," and "it does not appear that there will be any disciplinary action."</p>
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