Ed Werder doesn't like women helping women

I don't know too many quick climbers in any industry who don't have an outsized ego.

 

“Imagine the ego” of someone in journalism?

There’s a lot of it. All the way up, all the way down.

 

Imagine the ego of men who are actually not that great at journalism — but really good at networking — rising through the ranks and getting jobs they probably don't deserve. I see plenty of that. Way more than women, in fact.

 

Do you know how many people got their jobs through luck, kissassery, or quotas? Every single person who has a better job than I do.

 

The sad part of this whole thing is that, as bad as women and blacks, people of color etc think they have it when it comes to discrimination in this industry, gay people have it even worse. So many gays in this business get passed over way too often.

 

This strikes me as an important point, too. White Male A might not broadcast on Twitter that he's happy to help other white males apply for a job. But if he just asks his own friends if they're interested it may very well have that effect in practice--even though that's not his intent--simply because they're more likely to be white males.

 

Fascinating thread.

 

Welcome back, hoser!

 

Yeah. He should be getting them to sing the National Anthem.

 

I may have done it wrong, but when I searched the Department of Education's IPEDS database for 2016-17, I came back with approximately 90,000 grads (first majors only) in what the government calls "Journalism, Communication and Related Fields." Of that total, 60,000 were women. This is far from perfect, of course. You can't assume that only grads in that field are qualified for journalism jobs. Nor can we know what constitutes "related fields." Can't tell if advertising, for example, is in that group or in Business.
But it does suggest that the pool of qualified candidates is more than 12 percent female.

 

I didn't grow up playing sports, and the only sports I love are the Olympics. I was a psychology major, but chose to be a sportswriter as a college freshman because it was fun. And it still is.

 

Not really a "moral prescription," is it?

(Although Ed's karma is gonna need a touch-up.)

Ex-ESPN Writer Ed Werder Accuses Sports Illustrated Writer of Sexism

Ed Werder takes heat after tweet about men in sports journalism

https://www.theroot.com/ex-espn-reporter-ed-werder-cries-the-whitest-male-tears-1826922517

www.tmz.com/2018/06/18/ed-werder-sports-illustrated-writer-sexism-against-men/