A month into my job, the Daily Mail called out an anchor in Australia for wearing the same outfit on two occasions within half a year. (Headline: “That’s Thrifty!”) There’s also an incalculable amount of leering at the news. Some of the women who cover business are written about as “money honeys.” There’s at least one network where all the women are supposedly required—or at least strongly urged—to wear body-contouring, candy-colored outfits. Every woman in news has heard some version of the phrase: shoulders back, tits up. Sometimes the message is subtler but the intention is unmistakable.
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