I was amused to notice the different treatment of the NCAA basketball championships this March. Where the men's team made the bottom of the front page (and prime time coverage on CBS), the women's team, which achieved the equivalent result the next evening (on another channel) had the announcement printed by the times as the third or fourth item on the "Sports Page", where the top article on the page concerned a competitor's coach in a puff piece. The unconscious lack of interest in the women's achievements was so obvious as to be embarrassing.
"All the news that's fit to print" means all the news editors deem important as filtered through their bigotries. This from a paper which editorialized that charging 10cents for plastic bags here in NYC was reasonable; their main product is paper, produced in polluting plants, loaded with carbon black and other pigments, which is trash within 24 hours of production. What a weird world we live in.
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