NYT reporter says she would boycott Masters until women allowed at Augusta

"She's been spoken to."

 

Send her to MoDo.

www.nytimes.com/2012/04/08/opinion/sunday/dowd-what-would-jesus-do-at-the-masters.html?hp

 

this post belongs on the dimwit thread.

 

Dimwit meaning the caller, Moddy, not you.

Just didn't want you being confused.

 

“If it were left to me, which it seldom is in the power structure of writer versus editor, I’d probably not come cover this event again until there is a woman member,” Crouse said Thursday.

You're right. She hedged that statement with the word "probably."

 

You are not the only one whose readers or viewers aren't quite sure about where people work.

A friend who was a sports anchor for an NBC affiliate in a large Midwestern market answered the phone one evening in the early 1980s.

He told me the caller asked, "I'd like to speak with John Chancellor."

The sports anchor told me he said, "He's not here."

He told me the caller then said, "What do you mean he's not here? I just saw him on your station."

The sports anchor told me he told the caller that Chancellor was in New York City, several hundred miles away.

 

Question here.

Should the fact that Karen is female make a difference in her saying what she said, or the reaction from her sports editor, or the reaction on this thread?

Just want to be clear about the playing field.

 

Her entire gender is being discriminated against. That's the only reason we're even discussing this issue, or why she said what she said.

To turn this strictly into a discussion about journalism or how a reporter should behave misses the whole point.

 

Maybe.

I know that my first reaction was not gender-related. It was that you, the writer, don't say you'd "just as soon not cover" something you've been assigned to. Had nothing to do with female/male at that level.

 

Have you ever been assigned to cover an event at a place that discriminates against you? I haven't. But I would think that's a much more important level, personally, than a so-called breach of professionalism.

More reporters should say what Crouse said, IMO.