… the front-page national news is about Icelandic men and Brazilian waxing. You know. For Icelandic men. Alda at The Iceland Weather Report writes more about it here. Hey, I guess the news can’t all be about weather and war. Sometimes it’s about waxing.
P.S. Happy birthday to my favorite 30-year-old in the whole world.
The November 2007 issue of Editor & Publisher showcases its “Eighth Annual Photos of the Year.” The magazine (not the cover posted online) has a yellow sticker:
Also on the cover is a photograph of the grand-prize winner, camera in hand. Clearly a Canon. Yeah, yeah. He won a Canon camera as the grand-prize winner. But, well, yuck.
“Turn the camera a little to the right. We can’t see the logo.”
Yeah, yeah. It’s a magazine cover, not a news photo. But still. Yuck.
In other E&P news, “What Do Women Want?” [Scratching head.]
Newspapers are losing working mothers and time-pressed single women even faster than they are losing readers overall. Adult newspaper readership has dwindled from more than 80% of the total audience in 1964 to 49.9% last year, according to Scarborough Research and the Newspaper Association of America (NAA). But in 1964, only about 2% fewer women read newspapers than men. That gap stood at nearly 5% in 2006, with readership among men being 52.3% and women 47.6%. This gender gap is not just a U.S. problem, but shows up in nearly every nation, the World Association of Newspapers reported last year.
While I would dearly love to pick apart the numbers (a 3 percent gender-gap increase in 42 years … stop the presses!), I just don’t have time. I skimmed the article because, well, apparently I’m a “habitual skimmer.”
Some of the most powerful themes for women are the health and wellness of their children. Women are “habitual skimmers,” so stories should be short to attract female readers, says Skoloda. Research shows they like brief and bulleted formats, but they also want personal stories. “USA Today certainly has a format that has been very appealing to women,” she adds. Another favorite: The Wall Street Journal’s “Weekend Journal.”
So keep the stories short, bub. Hey, here’s an idea. Why not make everything pink? I hear girls love pink.
Speaking of books (we were, weren’t we?), Studs Terkel published his memoir, Touch and Go.
We interrupt this book, All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren, to share a few quotes.
When you get born your father and mother lost something out of themselves, and they are going to bust a hame trying to get it back, and you are it.
But the best luck always happens to people who don’t need it.
They say you are not you except in terms of relation to other people. If there weren’t any other people there wouldn’t be any you because what you do, which is what you are, only has meaning in relation to other people.
Someone at The New York Times did. Catherine Morgan started a list at Informed Voters. She’s at 200 and counting.
If things are going so well for American working mothers, why did the United States fall from 23rd place to 31st place on the Global Gender Report?
In an August 2007 survey, 89 percent of employees polled said work/life balance programs are important. Employers? Not so much. About half of the human-resources professionals polled considered them important, according to the 2007 Monster Work/Life Balance Survey.
The online survey included 506 HR professionals and 830 employees. While the survey is not scientific, the results illustrate a wide gap between what employees and employers consider important, despite all the public relations surrounding work/life balance. Maybe it’s a bit like the gap between what Corporate Voices for Working Families says it considers important in theory and what the U.S. Chamber of Commerce shows what it considers important in practice.
I swear. En far must know everyone in Denmark. Because darn near every one of them has been clicking through and checking out the daddy bloggers. See what you started, Lance?
So, hey, Danes … don’t be shy. Leave a comment.
:::It’s OK. I can read Scandihoovian.:::
Watch out, Viva Viagra boys. Seems your little blue pills might be “chipped” with RFID (Radio Frequency Identification).
Pharmaceutical companies and hospitals are now beginning to add to the first wave of RFID adoption, at least in the case of high-value drugs such as Viagra.
Guess maybe it’s not always true, “What happens in Viagra, stays in Viagra.” Eh?
