300 Years & Counting 1H KILLS - On The Issues Magazine

By Laura SydellAnd OtherReportorialSinsomen would love to see Thelmaand Louise use their pistols onI fill ^ne mana g emen t °f the NewUlai York Times, the WashingtonH H Post, NBC and a host of otherI \J mainstream media outlets. Althoughwomen may have come a longway since the days of hoop skirts andfoot binding, this doesn't seem to bereflected in the kind of press coveragethey're getting.According to a study by the mediawatchdog group Fairness and Accuracyin Reporting (FAIR) that looked at thefront page photos of three major dailies,the New York Times, USA Today andthe Washington Post, women don't seemto be very important. In the Post, only13 percent of front page photo subjectswere women; in the Times it was 11percent. The Times really showed itsreluctance to put a photo of a woman onthe front page when it illustrated anarticle on women's tennis with a photoof Boris Becker.ON THE ISSUES SUMMER 1992PHOTOS:RICK REINHARD/IMPACT VISUALS 33