Well, I guess that puts my worries to bed once and for all. Thanks, S !

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Radfem, they just hated Ann cuz’ she’s beautiful.

Connie Chung does fairly well. I know that I don’t even watch TV news.

Granted, Katherine Harris is making her femininity an issue when she stands at a ¾ view to the camera and thrusts her breasts out, and it’s great to examine how she’s using it and what kind of an atavistic role

**the only positive thing was that they did “recycle” out Ann Coulter**

No, they don’t. Although one oft-quoted study found that print journalists are more likely to pick opinions on various issues more aligned with liberal thought, the publishers who own most of the publications they right for are political conversatives. And if you don’t think that higher management and publishers influence content of a news reporters writing, then you haven’t worked in journalism, or haven’t very long.

There’s glass ceilings in journalism like anything else for men of color and women, including Asian-American women. Conservative, Liberal, racial discrimination still exists in the workplace.

The “work hard and go to college” structure?

[rolleyes]

Forget it, Robert. I don’t know why I even bothered to assume that you could for once conduct an exchange without playing your usual games of disingenuous bait-and-switch. But we’re not here for genuine exchange, of course. We’re here so you can have something to poke with a stick for your own amusement. What was I thinking ?

Show’s over, Folks. Move along. Nothing to see, etc…

The “work hard and go to college” structure?

As for why there aren’t many top-tier Asian journalists, beats me. Democrats run the newsrooms; maybe they hate Asians. On my side of the ideological fence, there doesn’t appear to be any particular bias against them; Ramesh Ponnuru, Malkin, Dinesh D’Souza, and so forth.

What “race” do you believe Malkin to be the sole exemplar of?

Robert, this thread is as close to us having a real discussion as I can recall in the entire history of this blog. Please don’t fuck it up by being willfully dense. You’ve read the thread. Don’t be obtuse. It just misdirects the conversation.

Who “elevated” her? From what I can see, she worked hard in high school to get the credentials that won her a place at a prestigious college. She worked hard at that college which bought her the chops to get a job at two metropolitan papers. She worked hard at the papers, which won her an audience in the community and the respect of her peers. That opened the door for her to get in at a prestigious think tank, where pundit-wannabes often spend a year or so burnishing their credentials. She did all of this while also being a wife and mother. (Well, not the high school and college part.)

That’s all well and good. What I don’t get is the idea that somehow she’d be the only Asian in the entire U.S. to have been good enough to compete at the top tier of a White-male-dominated profession. I don’t consider that a Lefty “fetish,” since you’ll find similar tokenism throughout the political world in one form or another.

Robert, you can try to dismiss what I’m asking by trotting out terms like “cabal” and “conspiracy,” but you’re contradicting your own point by simultaneously describing the structure that helped put Malkin in the public eye and then denying it exists. Honestly, that’s just weird.

What “race” do you believe Malkin to be the sole exemplar of?

Who “elevated” her? From what I can see, she worked hard in high school to get the credentials that won her a place at a prestigious college. She worked hard at that college which bought her the chops to get a job at two metropolitan papers. She worked hard at the papers, which won her an audience in the community and the respect of her peers. That opened the door for her to get in at a prestigious think tank, where pundit-wannabes often spend a year or so burnishing their credentials. She did all of this while also being a wife and mother. (Well, not the high school and college part.)

She spent 15 years becoming an overnight success. I don’t see a whole lot of elevating. Perhaps you do.

Did Malkin “win” as one wins a lottery ticket or did she “win” as one wins a marathon ? Who passed out the awards ? And if the awarders are largely White men, why should they get to be the only ones to bandy about terms like racism when it comes to their opponents ?

She “won” by writing stuff that people want to read, that is informative, thought-provoking, or what have you.

The bizarre worldview where a cabal of white men decide who’s going to be successful had a glimmer of truth, in the days when citizen media meant whatever the paperboy chose to yell. Michelle Malkin got 80,000 daily readers pretty much the minute she opened her blog. The Ivory Tower Of Power Conspiracy doesn’t have that many members.

Sebastian, are there not foundations that exclusively cultivate conservative voices ? Think tanks ? Politicians ? Publishers ? Blogs ? As I tried to say a couple of times before, politics isn’t all that different from show biz in the sense that it’s marketed like a product. Someone, or several someones, are doing the marketing and laying out the money for it, in hopes of getting both tangible and intangible returns. Despite Robert’s jokes, that’s not a wild-eyed conspiracy theory. It’s the market. You know, the one that conservatives so often talk about as the be-all and end-all of human existence. The one that you say is inherently “free” and that I say is exactly the opposite of “free.”

The problem is you use ‘elevate’ but do not identify who you believe is doing the ‘elevating’. Who are these ‘conservatives’ who want to have it both ways. We need to names here. :)

As many as win themselves an audience.

I’m confused. Did Malkin “win” as one wins a lottery ticket or did she “win” as one wins a marathon ? Who passed out the awards ? And if the awarders are largely White men, why should they get to be the only ones to bandy about terms like racism when it comes to their opponents ?

Hey, enjoy your stand-up act, but I was actually quite serious.

Conservatives, generally, don’t care about the question. Worrying about whether the People’s Committee has the proper number of ambidextrous Wiccan socialist lesbians of color is a leftist fetish. (Rightist fetishes involve Ann Coulter, a copy of Tip O’Neill’s book about black dysfunction in the inner city, and creamy brown gravy. Lots and lots of warm, sensuous gravy.)

If there’s room at the top for all those White guys, isn’t there also room for more than one Asian ?

As many as win themselves an audience. Or, pace Amanda, as many as we choose to grant audiences to. (I know I have a spare audience around here somewhere; maybe if you get around to starting that blog and promise to write about how feminism is eeeevil, I’ll assign it to you.)