And while I’m at it
Posted by Maman Poulet on 04 Nov 2009 at 12:59 am | Tagged as: Feminism, MSM
People following me on twitter or reading the liveblogs are probably sick to the teeth of my ranting through the last few weeks about Vincent Browne’s problem with women.
For a broadcaster so obsessed with equality this season’s show on TV3 has been marked by a lack of female guest on the first part of his programme on an average of 3 out of 4 shows per week.
This lack of female expert on the state of the nation has now been accompanied by a plethora of young female journalists appearing after the break to review the newspapers. There are no women in Ireland to discuss NAMA, national debt, public/private pay etc. etc. except for Joan Burton? (And absolutely no disrespect here to the Politician of Year 2009)
No feminist neurosis on #vinb because you can’t find a feminist.
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Completely agreed.
To be fair some months ago he asked for people to contact the show who were prepared to come on and be panellists or for others to make recommendations as he wanted a broader base of contributors.
Well spotted and highlighted MP.
It does emphasise that it is a male-only club who is framing the national debate and who is making the decisions about who will have or have-not and have-what into the future. All able-bodied and of similar ethnicity too. Is it a club to cater for the opinion-forming and decision making needs of men? They should apply for a drinks licence.
As the #VinB is usually an advocate for equality is there a chance that this is a deliberate strategy to highlight how homogenous is the group who form opinions and who make decisions for a diverse population? Regardless, it makes it very clear that this is the case.
I remember and welcomed the invitation for new contributors (seems restaurant owners in Greystones who are reading David McW’s book took him up on it) but it does not exonerate production team from engaging their brains – and the excuse of sure ‘we asked for suggestions’ is one trotted out by loads of organisations who should know better and are avoiding the issue.
But a bigger pool would give researchers less excuse for the mundanity of their selections.. if we want it to change we have to be prepared to take some action. Get the names into him.