Sadly, some of his readers further the sexualization and bashing of female anchors and reporters, adding comments such as “I have seen nicer legs on a table,” and others that describe women as “fat,” “HORSE FACE” and “garbage bags.” Lieberman rarely, if ever, puts Bay Area male anchors and reporters under the same microscope of distortion.
He headlined one post about a female journalist: “Boner of the Day.” Lieberman wrote an entire blog post debating whether an anchor’s “winnebagos” were “genuine or manufactured,” and has commented on the “boob power” of another anchor. Other posts focus on our physical attributes, putting our hair, clothing and weight up for public discussion, dissection and derision. Another post twists the warm relationship between two colleagues and claims the women are “at a Star Wars ego crossroads,” with one wanting the other’s job and the other “trying mightily to ward off the onslaught.” In reality, the women he presents as scheming rivals are often each other’s biggest supporters, confidantes and friends. One blog headline declares a particular anchor “Really Thinks She’s a Helluva Lot Better (and Finer)” than another female anchor at her station. Lieberman uses his blog to degrade women who have worked hard to earn their positions - and creates imaginary and stereotypical cat fights between us, repugnantly pitting one female news personality against another. And by sharing some of our own stories, we hope to shed light on the work that still needs to be done. We see it regularly in media, entertainment and politics. This kind of behavior from Lieberman may come as a surprise to many, but not to any woman working in the public eye. While The Mercury News has issued a correction for their inaccurate report, for a reputable paper to ever legitimize Lieberman in that way by using him as a source, is to dismiss the fact that what he writes about is often misogynistic, dramatized, and, frankly, perverted. The station news director tweeted back at the paper: “The public trusts you to tell the truth.
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The final straw for us came last week when The Mercury News published a since retracted story about local TV station KTVU that cited Lieberman as their only source. He’s pitted us against each other posted malicious rumors and gossip about us and presented us as objects to be ogled and mocked in exchange for clicks. Not anymore.įor nearly two decades, we’ve been told to look the other way as a self-described media blogger - Richard Lieberman - has written disturbing and sexist things about us and our colleagues. It is personal, it is uncomfortable, but we’ve learned: to be silent is to be complicit. We, the women past and present in Bay Area media, have something to say. An open letter from the women, past and present, of San Francisco Bay Area media.
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