David Zurawik‘s Baltimore Sun headline is “Move over, mister; Women are rising as anchors, stars.”
Is this “the dawning of the age of anchorwomen?” He quotes Marguerite Moritz, a professor of journalism at the University of Colorado specializing in depictions of gender, who says the courting of Katie Couric could be a harbinger of genuine change:
“Fundamentally, that conversation is going on for economic reasons. There’s some hard number crunching being done and executives at CBS saying, ‘Look, she’s been a huge success in the morning slot, maybe she can help us at night — even though we’ve always had a man as the face of CBS News.’ I don’t know if that’s empowerment for women, but I’m certainly happy to see it happen. It’s about time.”
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