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When a Sexist Voice is not a Choice: Representations of Women in National Broadcast News

Abstract

"Spitballs and Battleships: A show and Tell of Women in the News" is a minidocumentary that exposes the fallacy that national broadcast news is a source of objective journalism and examines its greater role as entertainment. Certainly women are a part of news and therefore a part of entertainment. Recognizing this the film asks a broader and perhaps more pith question: are Women agents in the degradation of the news or victims of sexism and misogyny?

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