{"id":3154,"date":"2005-03-16T12:10:48","date_gmt":"2005-03-16T20:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/03\/16\/estrichen-opinion-makers\/"},"modified":"2005-03-16T12:10:48","modified_gmt":"2005-03-16T20:10:48","slug":"estrichen-opinion-makers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/16\/estrichen-opinion-makers\/","title":{"rendered":"Estrichen opinion-makers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tCathy’s World<\/a> pretty much owns the story on the Susan Estrich\/Michael Kinsley cat fight over women on the opinion pages, but neither she nor anybody else has commented on the gender balance at California’s second largest daily, the Frisco Chronicle (known as “Comical” in the Bayarea.)<\/p>\n

When I left California a couple of years ago, all of the Comical’s opinion columnists were female: Joan Ryan, Stephanie Salter, Debra Saunders, and Ruth Rosen (who was a feminist studies professor to boot.) I see they’re a little more balanced now,<\/a> with the addition of Ken Garcia and the subtraction of Salter and Rosen.<\/p>\n

But nobody in the elite media complained when the Comical’s Op-Ed pages were dominated by people of one sex, so why the hoopla today over a similar situation at the LA Times?<\/p>\n

And who do you think reads the Op-Ed section, anyway?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cathy’s World pretty much owns the story on the Susan Estrich\/Michael Kinsley cat fight over women on the opinion pages, but neither she nor anybody else has commented on the gender balance at California’s second largest daily, the Frisco Chronicle (known as “Comical” in the Bayarea.) When I left California a couple of years ago, … Continue reading “Estrichen opinion-makers”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-OS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}