Category — *In the News

Sarah Palin: from Little Darlin’ to Scapegoat

Jennifer Kesler

First, Fox couldn’t sing Palin’s praises hard enough. Then the election ended - and not well for the party Rupert Murdoch supports - and now Fox can’t tell us enough about the “foibles of Sarah Palin.” (They claim they were …

November 14, 2008   12 Comments

Fat gives women strokes, says news

Jennifer Kesler

Today my underweight local female news reporter informed me that the number of women suffering strokes in the past few years has tripled since the numbers in the late 80’s to early 90’s, and doctors are blaming the obesity epidemic. …

February 21, 2008   8 Comments

Let’s talk about Love

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Lately, Jennifer Love Hewitt has had to deal with paparazzi photos taken of her on the beach in a bikini. Personal potshots about how she should exercise more, how she’s so huge and fat and gross how dare she …

December 11, 2007   9 Comments

Am I the only one who also feels sorry for Paris Hilton?

Jennifer Kesler

I don’t know Paris Hilton as a person, but I hate her image, I hate how she got famous on a phony sex scandal, I hate that she went to jail and got off easy and hate that she blithered …

August 2, 2007   3 Comments

Revisit: lack of reports of women fighting off assailants

Jennifer Kesler

The first month this site existed, I wrote a post asking why there weren’t more news stories about women fighting off their would-be rapists (or other types of assailants). It must happen occasionally; so why do you never see …

June 22, 2007   13 Comments

Australian Idol

UPDATE: This post will be rewritten at a later date.

For some reason I was thinking about Americal Idol winner Kelly Clarkson, and how much of a wholesome Texan girl she is, especially compared to one of our early winners, Casey …

June 19, 2007   12 Comments

It’s raining sexism

Jennifer Kesler

I didn’t get a weather report from my local news this morning, like I usually do. Reason? The weatherman was too busy trying to make an exchange between the two female news anchors into a girl-on-girl sex fest for …

June 18, 2007   1 Comment

The Full Don Imus Transcript: yes, there was more

Jennifer Kesler

I know this isn’t exactly on topic for this blog (radio, not film/tv), but I feel this requires as much exposure as it can get, so I’m posting it here.

Last night, as I was trying to research the origins of …

April 14, 2007   20 Comments

The Anna Nicole Smith Press Frenzy

Jennifer Kesler

I’ve been thinking about blogging on the coverage of Anna Nicole Smith’s death, which has rivaled coverage of the US’s invasion and occupation of Iraq. Then Scarlett sent me a link to this Slate article, and I made up …

April 8, 2007   9 Comments

I’m Sandra Sultry…

There’s an Australian broadcast reporter, Sandra Sully, who is possibly our most famous “˜news’ presenter (and I use the term “˜news’ quite loosely). She’s blond, slim, with a perfect complexion, and recently channel Ten has taken her from behind the …

March 20, 2007   4 Comments