Everyone else is doing it...
Written by: Beck
Michelle Malkin's post on her on-air ambush by Chris Matthews on MSNBC's Hardball has thus far received 82 trackbacks, which I'm pretty positive is some sort of blogosphere world record. So I figure, what the heck? Might as well jump on top of the dog pile. I like to think of it as being a part of history.
As I am seated at the table with Matthews, who I am meeting for the first time, he cracks a joke--and not in a well-meaning way--about how I look. (There are quite a few people who are hung up on this.) "Are you sure you are old enough to be on the show? What are you? 28?" I grit my teeth. He badgers me again with the same question. I politely answer his question and supply my age.
(I wonder how Matthews' wife, the respected TV journalist Kathleen Matthews, who hosts a show about working women, would react if informed about her husband's treatment of a fellow female journalist. I've been in the business a dozen years and would be happy to talk to Mrs. Matthews about my firsthand experience with Neanderthal chauvinism in the workplace.)
Needless to say, things went downhill, fast and loud, from there.
The post is definitely worth the read, if only to get a behind-the-scenes picture of how things work in television journalism.
(Hat tip:
Protein-Wisdom)