Dowd: It's Still a Man's World on the Idiot Box (White Man's World)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/02/opinion/02dowd.html?hp=&pagewanted=print&position=

It's the End of an Era. A momentous change.

Tonight on NBC, one tall and handsome white male anchor with bespoke clothes will replace another tall and handsome white male anchor with bespoke clothes.

Even Tom Brokaw is a little surprised that he has been succeeded by someone who looks like the love child he and Peter Jennings never had.

"I honestly thought, eight or nine years ago, that when we left," Mr. Brokaw said, referring to himself, Peter and Dan Rather, "that it would be the end of white male anchor time."

Nah. Those guys are hard to kill off. Indeed, white men are ascendant in Red State America.

[cybildisobedience]

1. tough work

interview three friends who are just like you, slap it together and call it another Pulitzer-worthy column.

[spooky3]

2. it doesn't make her points any less valid.

I'm not a big fan of hers, but she raises good points in this column. We've come a long way--not.

[Stuckinthebush]

3. We white guys still control a lot

It is funny, because you'd think that the majority of non-white guys would get together and say, "Hey! Wait a minute...this is BS!" As long as the majority lets us, we will continue to exert undue influence over all aspects of society.