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Monday, July 12th, 2010

There’s something strange  occurring in newsrooms all around the country and it’s especially noticeable in television.  While drama shows like “Grey’s Anatomy” and  “Law and Order” portray women as high-powered surgeons and cops or lawyers, down on the newsroom floor, where television is truly real, it’s depressingly revisionist.

And, for the sake of this blog, let’s put aside the fact that the upper echelons of newsroom management have been barely visited, let alone conquered, by women in any medium.

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