The Coffee House

[JonA_CT]

Gary sees it as a double standard ... that the female newscasters have different standards than the men.

This is nothing new. It just seems to be more explicit and obvious on some broadcasts than others.

Well...and let’s not forget that back in the “golden age” of broadcast news, women were often an afterthought in the newsroom in the first place.

 

[Gary A.]

Gary sees it as a double standard ... that the female newscasters have different standards than the men.

This is nothing new. It just seems to be more explicit and obvious on some broadcasts than others.

Well...and let’s not forget that back in the “golden age” of broadcast news, women were often an afterthought in the newsroom in the first place.

To Gary, electronic news has always been more entertainment than news ... The very 'liberal' LA Times, when Gary was there, only had one female photographer. But much of that was due to a lack of female photographers rather than an old boys network of discrimination. In college, I'd say it was around 50:50 male to females in the reporter ranks ... but in photojournalism it was 100% male. She, the lone female photographer, was treated as an equal ... but then we were all treated as equals ... male/female reporters and photogs were all treated equally as professionals.

 

[limr30 3]

Gary sees it as a double standard ... that the female newscasters have different standards than the men.

This is nothing new. It just seems to be more explicit and obvious on some broadcasts than others.

Well...and let’s not forget that back in the “golden age” of broadcast news, women were often an afterthought in the newsroom in the first place.

To Gary, electronic news has always been more entertainment than news ... The very 'liberal' LA Times, when Gary was there, only had one female photographer. But much of that was due to a lack of female photographers rather than an old boys network of discrimination. In college, I'd say it was around 50:50 male to females in the reporter ranks ... but in photojournalism it was 100% male.

Oh, let's not get into this again

 

[Gary A.]

Gary sees it as a double standard ... that the female newscasters have different standards than the men.

This is nothing new. It just seems to be more explicit and obvious on some broadcasts than others.

Well...and let’s not forget that back in the “golden age” of broadcast news, women were often an afterthought in the newsroom in the first place.

This isn't "the golden age" ... Gary would have hoped, that over the decades, we as a society and as a corporate model/standard ... that such obvious sexual exploitation and double standards wouldn't be on Tv and equally as important ... not as easy a call identifying a particular network.

 

[smoke665]

I find it very hard to take a woman newscaster serious when she dresses provocatively. I'm not so sure that it's all network directed either because if you'll notice there are some more conservatively dressed in the mix.

 

[Gary A.]

Gary’s Bread is better today than yesterday.

 

[limr30 3]

Please please please, let's just move on from the subject.

 

[limr30 3]

View attachment 148940 Gary’s Bread is better today than yesterday.

Bread. Yes. Let's talk about bread.

 

[SquarePeg37 8]

@limr Any comments on the firing of McElwaine????

Not too surprising, given their record and current problems with the team. Poor recruitment trickles all the way up to the coach. I am surprised and horrified at the death threats.

Southern football fans take it pretty serious!! He's not the first that I remember.

@SquarePeg You have to wonder at the luck some people have. Wonder what the odds would be that the poor woman would have a tree fall on her while driving down the street!!

You could look at it as bad luck that the tree fell on her while she drove by. You could also look at it as extremely lucky that it didn't fall a second earlier or later and land in a different way and kill someone in the car. Or someone walking by - that intersection is on one of the main paths that the Middle and HS kids take when walking to school and this happened during prime time this morning. I drive that route when I'm driving them. Frequently kids will stand around at that intersection waiting to meet up with friends before walking the rest of the way together. It's amazingly, incredibly, lucky that no one was seriously hurt. I think there were enough trees down and power outages in the area that they should have had a delayed start for school today but they didn't.

 

[waday]

View attachment 148940 Gary’s Bread is better today than yesterday.

Bread. Yes. Let's talk about bread.

I love bread.

Toasted bread.
Soft bread.
Buttered bread.
Sweet bread.
Savory bread.
Bread in knots.
Bread in loaves.
Bread in slices.
Bread as crumbs.
Bread as dessert.
Bread as an appetizer.

 

[terri35 6]

View attachment 148940 Gary’s Bread is better today than yesterday.

Bread. Yes. Let's talk about bread.

I love bread.

Toasted bread.
Soft bread.
Buttered bread.
Sweet bread.
Savory bread.
Bread in knots.
Bread in loaves.
Bread in slices.
Bread as crumbs.
Bread as dessert.
Bread as an appetizer.

And breadsticks!! Either the thin, crispy kind or the soft, doughy kind you can dip in marinara sauce. I love my carbs, but they sure are hard on the waistline.

But....mmm, bread.

 

[SquarePeg37 8]

Not my photo. Here's another one. This one took out a family room and car in driveway. These old trees that are close to the paved roads have short/damages root systems and don't hold up when it's damp and the wind is strong.

 

[SquarePeg37 8]

Funny story. My brother and sister-in-law (from NH) drove up to Canada this past weekend and left their 15 and 22 year old sons home with the 2 dogs. Last night while watching tv, a skunk walked out from behind the sofa! They had smelled skunk earlier in the hallway and assumed one of the dogs had been slightly sprayed while running in the woods out back or thought maybe the 22 year old smoked pot in the house...

The skunk must have come in through the doggy door and decided to stay and hang out behind the couch. SIL said the dogs were acting weird and trying to get onto the couch so she had put them into the kitchen until they could have a bath. They successfully herded the skunk out through the front door without getting sprayed. Would love to have been a fly on the wall for that scene!

 

[vintagesnaps]

Wade wrote something Dr. Seuss-like about bread. Add some green eggs & ham to that!

I cannot get going today... have laundry in the dryer so something's' getting done but I have little to do with it at the moment. There's no good movie on, and instead of Monk there are Christmas movies (could we have Halloween first?? geez).

So I've actually had on the news, I could use some of this.
$10 mil possible bail, yowza. But I guess the guy knew he was in serious doodoo when he woke up before dawn one morning and a bunch of people in FBI jackets were standing over his bed. (I am not a reporter! lol that is my imagination envisioning it...). And the third guy must've pooped his pants, turned himself in and plead guilty and nobody even knows who he is!

 

[waday]

Wade wrote something Dr. Seuss-like about bread. Add some green eggs & ham to that!

Wade drives to get bread by car,
Sometimes he eats bread as a pretzel in a bar.
Bread is baked, warm and hot,
Wade will give any bread a fair shot.
After he eats all the bread,
He finds that his scale plays dead.
If you find this leaves you wanting more,
Go bake some bread, it is no chore.