More troubling for Couric (and Clinton) may be the revelation that some
television viewers have a built-in resistance to ladies in charge. Networks
regularly commission telephone polls and conduct focus-group testing. The Katie
data are carefully guarded, but insiders at CBS and its competing networks will
hint at the general trends. Apparently, several months in to Katie's tenure,
there remains a small but unmovable percentage of the American television
audience that cannot now and will not ever feel comfortable hearing serious,
scary things about the world from a woman. One can only imagine how they'll
vote. Various sources put this percentage at around one-tenth of those
polled—enough to make or break a primary.
Shouldn't this be the subject of an article or a scholarly paper? [from the same school that produces the periodic reports proving that 'water is wet'? We aren't that sexist anymore. I mean not any more though... it should still be news... right?]
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