{"id":39907,"date":"2014-04-29T12:01:21","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T19:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=39907"},"modified":"2014-04-29T12:03:29","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T19:03:29","slug":"does-the-media-have-a-woman-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2014\/04\/29\/does-the-media-have-a-woman-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Does the Media have a Woman Problem?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20140429Uprising\/2014_04_29_women_in_media.mp3\">Listen to this segment with Liza Mundy <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20140429Uprising\/2014_04_29_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program with Host Sonali Kolhatkar<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/women_in_media.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>If you watch the news on TV, chances are that you will hear a male presenter because 60% of all television news anchors are men. If you pick up one of the top 10 most widely read newspapers in this country you&#8217;ll probably be reading an article written by a man since over 63% of the articles are written by men. And, if you start to look closely at who gets quoted most in media outlets like the New York Times, you&#8217;ll find that male &#8220;experts&#8221; outnumber women &#8220;experts&#8221; by three to one. <\/p>\n<p>A study done earlier this month by the Women&#8217;s Media Center looked at 27,000 pieces of content from various news organizations like newspapers and television news shows over a three month period and found that an overwhelming number of men are delivering our news as well as being represented in our news programming. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Liza Mundy, author of The Richer Sex and a program director at the New America Foundation, author of a New York Times op-ed entitled &#8220;The Media has a Woman Problem.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/04\/27\/opinion\/sunday\/the-media-has-a-woman-problem.html\">Click here<\/a> to read Liza Mundy&#8217;s article. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you watch the news on TV, chances are that you will hear a male presenter because 60% of all television news anchors are men. If you pick up one of the top 10 most widely read newspapers in this country you&#8217;ll probably be reading an article written by a man since over 63% of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39915,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39907\/revisions\/39915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}