Stories by Jennifer L. Pozner
Jennifer L. Pozner is a media critic, speaker, and the founder and executive director of Women In Media & News. She is the author of "Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth About Guilty Pleasure TV."
Posted on Feb 17, 2012, Source: AlterNet
On Saturday, MSNBC debuts the eponymous weekend show of Melissa Harris-Perry, Tulane professor, MSNBC regular and Nation columnist.
Posted on Dec 15, 2010, Source: On The Issues Magazine
Reality show producers paint American women as romantically desperate and hypertraditionalist in their views about the "proper" role for wives and mothers.
Posted on Jan 11, 2007, Source: Women in Media & News
If we truly care about women's rights and social justice, we must simply roll up our sleeves and tackle corporate media's failings, while strengthening independent media.
Posted on Nov 11, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Anti-abortion fanatics spread fear by bombings, murders and assaults, but the media take little notice.
Posted on Apr 26, 2006, Source: AlterNet
A recent Wall Street Journal editorial used tired old 'blame the victim' reasoning to explain away two high-profile rape cases.
Posted on Nov 10, 2005, Source: TomPaine.com
Women audacious enough to seek political power are routinely dogged by gender-specific coverage that focuses on their looks, fashion sense and familial relationships.
Posted on Oct 2, 2004, Source: Women's Review of Books
A new anthology shows that not only is feminism alive and kicking, it's a key part of many different kinds of struggles for social justice.
Posted on May 14, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Transgendered author Jennifer Finney Boylan talks about the joys -- and unexpected cultural baggage -- that come with being female in America.
Posted on Mar 15, 2002, Source: TomPaine.com
The NAACP honoring Condoleezza Rice its IMAGE media awards ceremony. Shouldn't the nation's leading civil rights group know better?
Posted on Feb 5, 2002, Source: Women's Review of Books
Since September 11, corporate media have said that women are just as hawkish as men in the War on Terror. The polls show this to be a lie.
Posted on Dec 19, 2001, Source: AlterNet
If women had equal access to the op-ed pages and the Sunday morning talk shows, we'd have heard a significant difference between men and women's perspectives on terrorism and war.
Posted on Oct 10, 2001, Source: Extra!
Two homosexuality studies were recently released, one claiming that gays can "go straight" through therapy, the other claiming they can't. Guess which one got media top-billing?
Posted on May 29, 2001, Source: FAIR
Mainstream news mischaracterized Bush's gag of overseas family planning groups. Truth is the White House rationale for the gag -- stopping abortions -- hasn't been relevant for decades.
Posted on Mar 13, 2001, Source: FAIR
The media is still obsessed with treating political women as objects, whether by telling us their dress sizes, diets or makeup habits.
