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23
[updated] Lock, stock & ambushed: O’Reilly’s people try to intimidate Think Progress’ Amanda Terkel
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As much as I’d love to be surprised by the news about Amanda Terkel’s extremely disturbing and undeserved experience over the weekend, arranged for by Bill O’Reilly’s producer, Jesse Watters and Watters’ cameraman, the fact is, this kind of intimidation of critics typifies O’Reilly and the bizarro world he inhabits where calling Helen Thomas a witch and imitating her voice is only about being funny and calling a 18 year old who is raped and murdered a “moronic girl” because of what she wore and was drinking the night she was violated and killed.
According to Think Progress, the tape from Watters’ ambush is to be aired tonight, but here are some links of what others have been saying all day about the outrageous extent to which O’Reilly will go to intimidate critics:
Politico: ThinkProgress’ Terkel: O’Reilly producer ambushed me
PunditMom: Can Bill O’Reilly say “civil assault”?
Feministe: Standing With Amanda Terkel
black girl blogging: Bill O’Reilley’s Producer is an Unprofessional Hack
Majikthise: Bill O’Reilly sics producer on female blogger who criticized host’s record on rape
Matthew Yglesias, Ezra Klein, Shakesville and others have also written about the incident.
For those interested, visit and consider joining “We Stand With Amanda Terkel” Facebook group.
I’ll update this post as it develops.
UPDATE: Amanda posts about the O’Reilly segment from this evening here. Honestly, his audience has got to have topped out the same way Rush Limbaugh’s has. And none of it is news, that’s for sure.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:07 pm March 23rd, 2009 in Crime, Ethics, intolerance, Media, Politics, Scandal, Sexism, Social Issues, Women | Comments Off
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Mar
23
Updatex2: More debunking of the 247 Wallstreet “dead or digi-only” list
Filed Under Blogging, Cleveland+, Media, Writing | 2 Comments
Read this post for background but the gist is that an outlet that provides news articles to TIME.com listed The Plain Dealer as one of the top ten newspapers the author was speculating would go dark or digi-only by the end of 2009. The PD’s publisher, Terry Egger, wasn’t buying.
Jay Rosen apprised me today of this follow-up post at the blog, Reflections of a Newsosaur called, About that newspaper “doomsday” list. The Newsosaur blog is penned by Alan Mutter, who “began his career as a newspaper columnist and editor in Chicago, starting at the Chicago Daily News and later rising to City Editor of the Chicago Sun-Times. In 1984, he became the No. 2 editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. He left the newspaper business in 1988 to join InterMedia Partners, a start-up company that within five years became one of the 12 largest cable-TV companies in the U.S.”
About the PD’s appearance on that list, Mutter says,
…Although Doug [A. McIntyre at 24/7 Wall St., the author of the list which appeared on TIME.com because 24/7 provides content to TIME.com] is a friend whose ordinarily thoughtful work I have cited on occasion, there is no hard data or deep analysis to support his findings.
Doug gives no evidence why the Plain Dealer is any more endangered than any of the other newspapers published by its parent, Advance Publications. Or why the Miami and Fort Worth papers are more at risk than some of the other McClatchy titles.
In other words, Mutter too seems to feel that the demise of these papers is greatly exaggerated.
UPDATE: Maybe not so fast. Expecially since I noticed the Newhouse connection re: Ann Arbor and that’s mentioned in the cleveland.com post as of 7:20pm this evening.
From the PD’s cleveland.com blog in the Business section:
The Plain Dealer will require non-union employees to take pay cuts and 10-day furloughs, in an attempt to cut costs but preserve jobs and continue to print seven days a week.
During meetings with employees Monday, Publisher and President Terrance C. Z. Egger announced that full-time, non-union employees must take 10 days of unpaid leave between April 20 and Oct. 4.
Full-time and part-time non-union employees will see their first $50,000 of pay cut by 8 percent and any additional pay reduced by 10 percent as of June 1.
The furloughs involve 370 employees. Pay cuts will affect about 450 of the Plain Dealer’s 1,055 workers.
The newspaper also is evaluating its employee benefits packages and could make changes this summer.
There’s a lot more there to read, and plenty of comments.
Hattip Blogger Interrupted and Keeler Political Report.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 4:41 pm March 23rd, 2009 in Blogging, Cleveland+, Media, Writing | 2 Comments
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23
[updatedx3] Round-up: Recession, job loss & their economic impact on women
Filed Under activism, Barack Obama, Blogging, Economy, Gender, Government, leadership, Media, Politics, Sexism, Whitehouse09, Women, Writing | 4 Comments
Everyone should be aware of how the recession and economic strife are impacting women (and frequently, therefore, children and families) disproportionately. Here’s a list of articles that provide numerous perspectives on the issues:
1. From Women’s eNews today:Women are almost twice as likely as men to hold subprime mortgages. That means the ability of many to hang on to their homes could be tied up with Senate action–expected this month–on a bill to reduce mortgage payments.
2. Feminist Peace Network wrote a nine ten-part series on the economic impact on women, here and around the globe. Many of the posts offer links to more information. These entries have been published between October 2008 and March 12, 2009:
The Girls’ Guide To The Economy
The Girls’ Guide To The Economy–Part 2
The Girls’ Guide To The Economy Part 3–Time For A Bakesale
The Girls’ Guide To The Economy Part 4–Marie Antoinette and the Katrina Analogy
The Girls’ Guide To The Economy Part 5–The Shopping Edition
The Girls’ Guide To The Economy Part 6
The Girls’ Guide To The Economy Part 7–Health Is Not A Luxury Item
The Girls’ Guide To The Economy Part 8–There are NO Women On The Stimulus Conference Committee
The Girls’ Guide To The Economy Part 9–The Impact Of The Economic Downturn On Women’s Lives
3. The Women’s Media Center asks us to think about women, poverty and the burden on President Obama in As Global Recession Drives More Women into Poverty, a Challenge to Obama.
4. Nancy Goldstein, writing for Salon.com’s Broadsheet section in February, discusses how The Economy is a Feminist Issue.
5. Also in February, Ruth Rosen asked, What kind of stimulus do American women want on Talking Points Memo’s TPM Cafe.
6. The New York Times blog, Economix, posted a entry about how early childhood education is the “ultimate growth industry” to be considered when considering the stimulus.
7. PunditMom aka Joanne Bamberger submitted a project that would involve interviewing women who live in different places all over the U.S. and chronicling their stories of how they’re kicking “the economic crisis in the butt.” You can vote for her project through April 3, 2009.
Those should get you started but good.
Update: I’m going to add posts as I become aware of them.
Recessionwire – this blog is great but in particular, check out the column noted by Tristin Aaron in a comment below, Love in the Time of Layoffs, by Deborah Siegel of Girl with Pen (another great blog).
Ohio State University’s Institute on Women’s blog posted, “Women and the Economy – Various Viewpoints” and links to reports on how women in the insurance and financial sectors are being hit (hattip to Julie Graber, director of the Institute).
And, how I missed this-I have no excuse, but Jen Nedeau at Change.org’s Women’s Right site, had a great round-up on March 16, in A Few Thoughts on Women & the Economy (including links I have not provided). Thanks, Jen.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:53 am March 23rd, 2009 in activism, Barack Obama, Blogging, Economy, Gender, Government, leadership, Media, Politics, Sexism, Whitehouse09, Women, Writing | 4 Comments
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