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Brigade. With Logan, there was more than just a new world opened up to her but new opportunites as well. With Logan being the son of newspaper mogul Mitchum Huntzberger, she could have her pick of newspapers to work at. Traditionally in pop culture, women are painted as taking the easy way out to get to their career goals. However, Rory rarely takes advantage of this point. Rory learns in these situations that having an Ivy League education is not always going to get you favorable circumstances. “Despite her initial reticence, Rory acccepts an internship at a small newspaper owned by mitchum huntzberger, reinforcing the idea that becoming a journalist has nothing to do with what is taught at the ’best universities in the most powerful countries in the world’. instead, it is all about who you know” (Screwball Television, 215). With the Huntzbergers, Rory deviates from the sterotypical woman journalist route of love before school and a career . She cancels plans a number of times with her first boyfriend Dean Forester in order to study and once to pursue a major story. More stereotypical woman journalist behaviors are represented in her relationship with Dean. Stress is put on this relationship when he does not really show an interesst in Rory’s news stories. A bigger deviation from the “womanly norm”, she turns down Logan’s proposal. Her grandparents and others in her life do not understand this. Later in the reboot, Gilmore Girl A Year in the Life, we see this various times in a more exaggerated way in her relationship with Paul. Even in modern times, depictions of female journalists seem to be stuck in the fifties. Women are supposed to go to school, get married, and have kids. Their career is always supposed to be secondary to their family. There has always been an uphill struggle from the beginning of the history of women in journalism. 16 FICTION May 2018 Despite the focus the show places on her relationship, they also show her being a thorough journalist. In a conversation with her editor Doyle at the Yale Daily News, he tells her about how Mitchum Huntzberger had just barged in saying, “I’d like to hand my business over to my son, Doyle. So it’d be nice if he knew something about it” (Gilmore Girls, S5E12). Doyle then expresses that he in now Logan’s
journalistic godfather. When Rory questions if Logan can actually write, Doyle tells her that he’s actually a great writer, he just doesn’t focus as much on the paper as he does on partying. Doyle is waiting on a piece from Logan and Rory offer to help. Rory then meets Logan at the Pub so she can share the notes on the story with him. He arrives to see three stacks of colorcoded folders, each at least a few inches thick. She notes, “I’ve divided them up into sections, interviews, research, statistics” (Gilmore Girls, S5E12). Her attention to detail as a journalist shines through in this scene. Rory later become editor of the Yale Daily News. Here, the tables turn and she has her own conflict with reporters as their editor. One characteristic that makes its way through poular culture portrayals is when a woman journalist lets her feelings works their way into her job. After a spat with Logan, she poaches a story from him claiming that she was not sure he was going to get it done. Logan expresses frustration over this situation. “It wasn’t going to earn me my pulitzer but i already put a lot of work into it” (Gilmore Girls, S6E18). “Gilmore Girls presents a primarily positive view of journalism, however filled it may be with stereotypes about or simplifications of the profession” (Screwball Television, xxvii). Despite the original series giving a positive depiction of journalists, the same cannot be said for the recent four-part series reunion on Netlfix. Rory ends the original series as an online reporter following the Obama campaign. When we see Rory again, she is in her thirties and after her one-hit-wonder, talk-of-the-town piece, she’s grasping at straws and praticing poor journalism as she tries to figure out her next step. Rory goes to an interview without having any story ideas then out drinking with and having a one-night-stand with a source whose name she doesn’t know then goes to an interview expecting a hand out. Far has the Ivy League journalist star has fallen. FICTION May 2018 17
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