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		<title>Huffington Post Just Fucking With Me Now</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via pukeimmediately: And Huffington Post&#8217;s sexism spills to the business pages.


Every single business reporter selected for HuffPo&#8217;s latest parade of sexism interactive slideshow is a woman. While I love to see women succeeding in business, this particular feature isn&#8217;t exactly what I had in mind. Let&#8217;s take a look.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Via <a href="http://www.pukeimmediately.com/post/129659366">pukeimmediately</a>: And <em>Huffington Post</em>&#8217;s sexism spills to the business pages.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/sexist/files/2009/06/huffpo1.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4657" title="huffpo1" src="http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/sexist/files/2009/06/huffpo1.jpg" alt="" width="420" height="66" /></a></p>
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<p>Every single business reporter selected for<em> HuffPo</em>&#8217;s latest <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">parade of sexism</span> interactive slideshow is a woman. While I love to see women succeeding in business, this particular feature isn&#8217;t exactly what I had in mind. Let&#8217;s take a look.</p>
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<p>* <strong>Where the dudes at?</strong><em> HuffPo</em> chose to only place women on its list. It must be because, as Pukeimmediately points out, men don&#8217;t have to be attractive to be respected as reporters. And so, <strong>Eric Bolling</strong>&#8217;s camera-ready tan and <strong>Cody Willard</strong>&#8217;s glorious mane have gone un-dissected by the Internet sexy police:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/sexist/files/2009/06/happyhour.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4659" title="happyhour" src="http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/sexist/files/2009/06/happyhour.jpg" alt="" width="393" height="239" /></a></p>
<p>*<strong> Meow!</strong> Why not just put a few guys into the mix in order to create the facade of gender-equality? That would ruin the whole Fox vs. CNBC girl-on-girl cat-fight scenario <em>HuffPo</em> has constructed here. Throwing a Cody Willard may boost <em>HuffPo</em>&#8217;s progressive cred, but progressive cred can be a real boner shrinker.</p>
<p>* <strong>Experience bad.</strong><strong></strong> In the real world, the more years a reporter has slaved away at a beat, the more valued they are as a journalist. When <em>HuffPo </em>wonders if <strong>Maria Bartiromo </strong>has<strong> </strong>&#8220;lost some of her hotness to her younger colleagues,&#8221; however, we see the limits of experience: it&#8217;s valuable only until you&#8217;re too old to be hot anymore.</p>
<p>* <strong>Boobs good! </strong>When it&#8217;s not knocking FOX Business for low-ratings, <em>HuffPo </em>is commending it for its steady stream of &#8220;buxom women.&#8221; (I wonder where they found that business model?) Some FOX business reporters are so good at their jobs, they actually have the power to make business viewers not give a shit about business. On <strong>Rebecca Diamond</strong>: &#8220;She recently conducted a well-researched interview about commercial real estate, but it was hard to pay attention. She was wearing a turquoise mini-dress with a deep V that nearly reached her belly button.&#8221; In other words, women must be attractive in order to become journalists, but they still won&#8217;t be respected in the field, because they are attractive.</p>
<p>* <strong>Newsflash: Pretty girl not dumb!</strong> HuffPo doesn&#8217;t entirely ignore these female reporters&#8217; professional accomplishments&#8212;it just lists them as some sort of surprise twist to their hotness.  <strong> Tracy Byrnes </strong>is hot, and wrote a book! <strong>Melissa Francis</strong> is hot, and attended Harvard! <strong>Trish Regan</strong> is hot, and wrote about pot once! <strong>Jenna Lee</strong> is hot, and looks American! Okay, so <em>HuffPo </em>couldn&#8217;t dig up a career accomplishment for <em>all </em>of these women.</p>
<p>*<strong> And while we&#8217;re at it:</strong> We get it, <em>HuffPo: </em>&#8220;Hard-hitting&#8221; means more than just &#8220;serious journalism.&#8221; It also means you guys have a boner. Using this double-entendre twice in this slide-show alone is more than enough.</p>
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