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This is so Alys Vorpatril I can't stop smiling: Judith Martin (aka Miss Manners) on covering national and international news under the guise of the Washington Post's "For and About Women" section in the 1960s.
Meg Greenfield, who later ran the editorial page of The Post, once wrote in Reporter magazine that it was “a common saying in Washington that if the President were to declare war at the [Woman’s] National Democratic Club, The Post would run the story on the society page.” Her thesis was that to keep up with what was going on in Washington, it was necessary to read For and About Women, and she reported that President Kennedy and then-President Johnson were among our regular readers.
Yet the insults keep coming — 45 years later! — about the supposedly pathetic, laughable excuse for journalism from which Style sprang.
That smug view of the past is rather like the popular belief that Victorians were too inhibited to indulge in sex: It fails to explain how we got to where we are now.
Meg Greenfield, who later ran the editorial page of The Post, once wrote in Reporter magazine that it was “a common saying in Washington that if the President were to declare war at the [Woman’s] National Democratic Club, The Post would run the story on the society page.” Her thesis was that to keep up with what was going on in Washington, it was necessary to read For and About Women, and she reported that President Kennedy and then-President Johnson were among our regular readers.
Yet the insults keep coming — 45 years later! — about the supposedly pathetic, laughable excuse for journalism from which Style sprang.
That smug view of the past is rather like the popular belief that Victorians were too inhibited to indulge in sex: It fails to explain how we got to where we are now.
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Date: 2014-12-13 05:28 pm (UTC)From: