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"Spin Sisters: How the Women of the Media Sell Unhappiness - - and Liberalism - - to the Women of America".
While it may seem to pro-lifers as if the media elite meet in dark, smoke-filled rooms to plot how best to tilt media coverage as far to the pro-abortion side as possible, if we are to believe some insiders that's simply not the case. What does happen quite commonly can be summed up in the expression "birds of a feather flock together."
This does not change the reality of bias, of course. But it does give us a better handle on how best to combat anything-but-objective news coverage.
Myrna Blyth, former editor of Ladies Home Journal and founding editor of the now-defunct MORE magazine, centers her criticisms on the world of women's magazines and news anchors in her book Spin Sisters: How the Women of the Media Sell Unhappiness - - and Liberalism to the Women - - of America. Blyth has spent her entire career around these women and knows of their considerable influence and out-of-the-mainstream beliefs.
Most of the book covers how women such as Katie Couric, Diane Sawyer, Barbara Walters, and their like-minded media coterie of "sisters" assume that all American women think as they do. Their views are a given, like gravity. Those women (or men) who believe otherwise are dismissed as conservatives, pro-lifers, or evangelicals, too ignorant and ill-informed to be taken seriously.
That they hobnob together is not surprising. That they don't realize how wholly unrepresentative they are is surprising.
A favorite spot for lunch is Michael's in New York City ($27 for a Cobb Salad for lunch). They spend their weekends at their "country" homes in Connecticut or upstate New York and ask to be invited into our living rooms with the promise of the latest woman-as-victim story, a practice that Blyth despises.
It is worth remembering that, for the most part, Blyth believes these "Spin Sisters" don't set out to twist and distort reality. They just see the world through lenses few American women can afford or would want.
- Spin Sisters.(Book Review)
- Newspaper article from: Reviewer's Bookwatch Smith, S. Daniel January 1, 2005 700+ words
...frustration real. Spin Sisters examines how women in the liberal...insight into the women's movement...6 Secrets the Spin Sisters Won't Tell...then go through Spin Sisters as a whole to...how the liberal women's media spins...
- Spin Sisters: How the Women of the Media Sell Unhappiness and Liberalism to the...
- Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine) Fischer, Raymond L. March 1, 2005 700+ words
SPIN SISTERS: How the Women of the Media Sell Unhappiness...months analyzing the power that Spin Sisters hold over women, she realized that the influence...liberal than those of most other women), the Spin Sisters assume that all women should...
- Spin sisters.(NATION)(INSIDE THE BELTWAY)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times November 28, 2003 700+ words
...beliefs of prominent media women, several of whom are...Clinton. "Of all the women-as-victim stories...of supremely powerful women, some of whom have learned...when she and other "Spin Sisters Supreme" were guests...believe that if you're a woman, you should think like...
- Blyth spirit.(Spin Sisters: How the Women of the Media Sell Unhappiness -and...
- Magazine article from: National Review O'Beirne, Kate March 22, 2004 700+ words
...specifically for women (the other five...sells," the spin sisters wildly exaggerate...advertisers want women to spend, spend...Stalked! Why No Woman Is Safe" and...a traditional women's magazine...recognizable spin sisters, including Jane...Chestnut, editor of ...
- Our media, ourselves: dieting again? Blame it on the liberals.(Spin Sisters:...
- Magazine article from: Columbia Journalism Review Tucher, Andie March 1, 2004 700+ words
...once upon a time, women's magazines ... clearly...in this "survey" of women's magazines? That...discussion of how the Spin Sisters helped Hillary Clinton...had an affair with a woman with (hee hee) a big...Although today's women are "the best educated...
- MYRNA BLYTH'S "LHJ" CAREER HAD SPIN SISTERS TENDENCIES, TOO...(Ladies' Home...
- Newspaper article from: Media Industry Newsletter March 22, 2004 700+ words
...just-published Spin Sisters: How the Women of the Media Sell...newest "neocon." "Spin Sisters is a message to women that they do not...magazines and from women tv anchors." It...week to promote Spin Sisters, none was on a...
- How the 'spin sisters' sell fear.(LETTERS)(FORUM)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times April 11, 2004 700+ words
...TIMES An American woman is beaten by...against pregnant women is responsible...provocative title, "Spin Sisters: How the Women...million American women read religiously...describes the Spin Sisters this way...remember, the women's magazine...Nancy Pelosi as ...
- SPIN BUTCHER.(Spin Sisters: How the Women of the Media Sell Liberalism - and...
- Magazine article from: Folio: the Magazine for Magazine Management Borod, Liz April 1, 2004 700+ words
...searing indictment of women's magazines, in which...for 30 years. But in Spin Sisters: How the Women of the Media Sell Liberalism...longing for a time when women's books were more soothing...face it. Marilyn was a woman. Gisele Bundchen is...
