Your Sunday morning rage-on

[sabotabby]

Listening to CBC's Sunday Edition on the lack of female writers in magazine publishing. All of the women they're interviewing have interesting and relevant things to say on the subject. For some reason, they felt the need to interview John Macfarlane, editor of the Walrus, who has nothing interesting to say, beyond reminding me of why I never read the Walrus.

For example, he says that when one assigns articles, one wants to be gender-blind (what?) but sometimes it is just more appropriate to assign a certain gender. Like you wouldn't assign a man to write about parenting (double-what?).

I can't believe, in 2011, there are people who say this shit. Though I think this has a lot to do with why the magazine publishing industry is dead in the water and I only read blogs now.

Comments

[jvmatucha.livejournal.com]

you wouldn't assign a man to write about parenting

o_O

I'm sure the magazine industry, like the newspaper industry, will whine that thee internet is killing theior industry, but I can tell you a major reason that newspapers are dying in the US is because they're printing crap. Public trust in the major media is at an all-time low in this country. If trhey started printing real journalism than people would start buying their papers again.