ucbesvax.turner@ucbcad.UUCP (08/19/83)
#R:ihuxm:-40700:ucbesvax:10300019:000:920 ucbesvax!turner Aug 18 00:50:00 1983 Carl neglects the most telling part of the phrase that won the suit against this woman's former employers: "...and not deferential enough to men." The papers play up the age/looks aspect, but they're in the image-making business themselves. What it really comes down to is that she didn't kiss certain male posteriors in the time-honored tradition of TV news. To my mind, that's setting a far more important precedent than how old or "unattractive" a women newscaster can be. I happen to find Barbara Walters ("Babwa Wawa"), about as unattractive as a person can be: polite only when on the way to being nasty, and with all the intellectual depth-perception of a dried garbanzo bean. She could be 22, and a latter-day Garbo, and still be ugly with a personality like that. I mean, I remember when she inter- viewed the Shah of Iran, and I ended up feeling sorry for HIM! Michael Turner (ucbvax!ucbesvax.turner)