Seems like the good old boys at Fox News Network just can’t leave the girls alone. First network loudmouth Bill O’Reilly got caught making dirty phone calls to a female producer. Now the network’s VP of advertising and promotions, Joe Chillemi is under investigation by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for a “pattern of...
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The Missing White Girl Syndrome
Meet Taylor Behl, a 17-year-old freshman at Virginia Commonwealth University. She’s young, pretty, white and missing — ingredients that make her newsworthy in today’s 24/7 news culture. Taylor’s case has all the ingredients for the sensationalist side of news: She disappeared without a trace, she has a “dark side” to her life that shows...
Uncertainty
Like many others in the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast, newspapers feel the effect of tragedy. In Biloxi, the Sun-Herald reports that 30 percent of its staff is still missing after Katrina devastated the city last week. In New Orleans some wonder is the venerable Times-Picayune will continue publishing, prompting the publisher to issue a public...