From the So What Else Is New Department of Breaking News:
By A Nearly 2 To 1 Margin, Cable Networks Call On Men Over Women To Comment On Birth Control
President Obama’s regulation mandating that health insurance plans offer free birth control is an issue that most directly affects women. And yet, the cable news chatter over this controversy has been driven mostly by men, according to a new ThinkProgress analysis.
From Monday through Thursday evening, the leading cable news channels – Fox, Fox Business, MSNBC, and CNN – invited almost twice as many men as women onto their shows to discuss contraceptive coverage.
Out of a total of 146 guests who discussed contraception, the cables invited 91 men compared to 55 women as commentators. In other words, males comprised 62 percent of the total guests who commented on contraception. Fox was the most gender stratified network – on the Business network, 10 of 11 guests were male; on the News side, male pundits took up 65 percent of the guest lineup (28 men vs. 15 women). Sixty percent of MSNBC’s lineup was male (44 men vs. 31 women). And while CNN was more evenly balanced, it was still slightly tilted in favor of male perspectives (9 men vs. 8 women).
http://thinkprogress.org/media/2012/02/10/423211/cable-report-birth-control-men-women/
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and thus propagate their genetic mutations forward ... ewwwweee.
to the nearest fainting couch.
Besides, menfolk are naturally better at making important decisions like this, being so much more logical and all.
