NYT reporter says she would boycott Masters until women allowed at Augusta

Joel Chandler Harris . . . and popularized w/the broad public in the Disney animated feature Song of the South . . . though that attraction's about as dead as a dodo these days, since it's about as politically correct as the crows in Dumbo.

 

Fair enough, Versatile and Tarheel316. I respect your opinions, even thought I think mine is better Do I think Karen wishes she had chosen different words? Possibly. But in the end I think she was asked a question and answered honestly about a subject that mattered a great deal to her. And I don't think she should be villified for that.

 

I'm just glad that Karen Crouse is no longer The Jets beat reporter for The Times. Thinking that it's too bad that Judith Miller did not refuse to cover the Middle East for their anti female policies. We might have avoided the war on terror.

I wonder if Karen thought about refusing her feature assignment on gay basher
Ricky Manning or gun collector and pit bull breeder Tank Johnson.

 

Better than expected, too.

 

Right, let's attack a veteran reporter who has an issue with the requisite annual glorification of a place that wouldn't let her in the gate any other week of the year unless she was escorted by testicles.

I'll keep asking the other question (and granted, I am doing it from the comfort of anonymity): Why do the rest of the media/golfers/sponsors not feel the same?

(And as a separate issue, just in response to the posts on this thread: hahaha that we are not part of the story, as we blog and tweet and podcast and manufacture breaking news and exploit every possible form of media just so we can be part of the story. At this point in time, if you're NOT part of the story, you're probably on your way out of a job.)

 

Apparently its ok to be part of the story when the story is how awesome it is to play Augusta. I think between the two threads we would find at least one poster playing both sides of that coin.

 

Pierce. www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/karen-crouse-masters-7890688?hootPostID=1ec263a2bacde6ea7cdefdd8177cfcb4

 

Charlie Pierce doesn't even address the thing that probably riled Joe Sexton most: Karen Crouse saying she only covers the event because her editor makes her. If she said, "I think the Masters' policy toward women is despicably outdated," and left it at that, is this a story?

 

If only she had won a spot in the media round, maybe this could have all been avoided.

 

Charles P. Pierce goes full throttle on Augusta -- and the NYT for the high handed "she has been spoken to."

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/karen-crouse-masters-7890688?hootPostID=1ec263a2bacde6ea7cdefdd8177cfcb4

 

Has Charlie Pierce weighed in on this yet? Or said anything about Mitt Romney's Harvard comments?