Real Majority, Media Minority: The Costs of Sidelining Women in Reporting (Journals of Thomas Merton)

THE OTHER HALF OF THE STORY. In part thanks to writers and activists like Laura Flanders of FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting), there are now more women working in U.S. news media than ever before. But have more women in the industry produced better coverage of women's rights and so-called "women's issues?" In her first book, Flanders, host of the nationally syndicated radio program "CounterSpin," says not.

While some women have become multi-million dollar earners, the perspectives of most women are still sidelined, Flanders documents. And that's not just sexism, she says--it's bad reporting.

REAL MAJORITY, MEDIA MINORITY gathers together into one collection almost ten years of Flanders's extraordinary essays and interviews analyzing the structure and habits of the commercial news media. In an eloquent argument, she says it's time to go beyond simple "bean counting." "What's critical isn't who's telling the story, but how the story s being told."