*grumble*

[ksmith]

The root story about the apparent jockeying for position between 2 CNBC financial reporters is balanced enough at first glance--although I wonder if age differences would be noted so obviously if men were involved. But the Huffington Post headline stating that "CNBC Insists There's No Catfighting Between Its Anchors" just irritates the hell out of me, and not just because it's a standard HuffPo crank-the emotion-up-just-a-little-more headline. Yes, it's the term "catfighting," that handy denigrating catch-all that I've seen used to refer to disagreements between females of all ages and professions, no matter the roots of the disagreement. Because it's all about the hissing and scratching, which makes a lot of entertaining noise, but really doesn't mean anything. No genuine positions of strength. No heartfelt principles being argued. No ambition or ego. It's just girlfighting, and isn't it all one step above jello wrestling anyway?

Yes, I did expect more from a blog/website run by a woman. Guess I expected too much from Ms Huffington.

Update: And now the headline, which is buried on the Media page, reads: "CNBC Insists Burnett, Bartiromo Get Along." I have a feeling it was edited for space, not because of any sudden dawning that maybe they'd made a really lousy choice of words.

Comments

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Did you comment on that to Ms. Huffington?

Quick answer--not yet. I need to register with the site to do that, and I won't do that until I get home.

I have noticed the same types of wording/terms used by papers such as the Washington Post. Female politicians nag. They scold. The wife/nanny/bitch dynamic. Do the writers not realize how the use of those words and terms trivializes the subject? Do they not care?

[barbarienne.livejournal.com]

The answers to your last two questions are the same:

"Probably not."

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Given that these folks are in the word business, I find that very...sad.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

And I just registered. It will take up to 24 hours to activate, which they probably do in order to keep out the hit 'n' run trolls.

The comments I saw were unfortunately what I expected. Cracks about the women's looks. That they should duke it out in a jello wrestling match. The level of commentary on many of these blogs can be pretty hit and miss, but this lacks anything resembling intelligence.

I don't know why Huffington had garnered a rep as a pundit. Her site lacks and from what I've seen on the air, she isn't extraordinarily erudite or well-spoken.