MSNBC's Connie Chung tells the Philadelphia Inquirer's Gail Shister that Katie Couric should get special treatment in order to be treated fairly as CBS Evening News anchor:
Chung...hopes that media meanies don't pit Couric against ABC World News Tonight coanchor Elizabeth Vargas as some kind of catfight.
"It's fine if they position all the individuals against each other - [ABC's] Bob Woodruff and [NBC's] Brian Williams."
Otherwise, "it's just plain sexist. I know it's a tradition, but I'd love to see the tradition broken."
So, in order for sexism in television news to be defeated, Katie Couric needs special treatment--which is, basically, the definition of sexism? Why is it that when two men compete, it's competition, but when two women compete, it's a catfight? By making comments like this, Connie Chung's part of the problem, not part of the solution.
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