Hypocrisy or Irony? Right-Wing Media and Abortion
By Cynthia Dill,
Huffington Post
| 07. 10. 2011
[Quotes CGS's Marcy Darnovsky]
Sitting in his ivory tower reserved for men only in Portland, Maine, M.D. Harmon lectures readers about the myriad uses of irony while blaming "feminists" for a world where boys are valued much higher than girls.
And the irony apparently escapes him.
It's 2011 and there is not a single female political commentator employed by the so-called "liberal media" in Maine. Sure, publications feature national syndicates, but all politics are local.
Here in Maine, as elsewhere, talk radio is dominated by angry obese men who lecture about personal responsibility. Here local television trots out the same two guys, an insurance salesman and an education professional, to serve as our only "senior political analysts."
And here the newspapers are saturated with written opinions of male editors, economists, businessmen, and conservative curmudgeons like Harmon, an editorial writer for the Portland Press Herald.
In Harmon's recent article, he accuses feminists "in Western cultures" for the aimlessness and violent behavior of men. From the comforts of his echo-chamber, Harmon "discovered" his opinion by reading articles written by other conservative men about a certain provocative...
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