Ines returns to Jets practice

[Point of Order]

She's not wearing a bikini. Do some people expect her to wear a burka?

This isn't a particularly provocative outfit. I can't speak to her qualifications as a journalist but that's not really the point here, is it? This is the norm for Spanish-language female "presenters". And before any of you shakes your finger at this, remind me of the last time a woman who was as gender-relatively attractive as Tony Kornheiser had a major on-camera job in sports television. There are double standards out the wazoo in this business.

I agree with the point though. There is a reason Erin Andrews is on the sidelines of every big game on ESPN and it's not because she is a great journalist. Not saying she's a bad journalist. Just that her journalistic ability has nothing to do with it.

If finding players' families' in the stands having your assistant find players' families in the stands and standing in their general vicinity while reading a script the producer wrote for you the night before off an index card your assistant has kept up with the entire game and handed you just before you went on camera is good journalistic ability then Andrews has it.

 

[Cubbiebum]

One could make the case that the decline in professional attire isn't unique to female broadcasters or journalism in general

I make the exact opposite case. Men aren't wearing tank tops on the air. Last I saw Mark Schwartz was wearing a tie. So was Randy Cross. If it's hot, you might see a golf shirt, but that doesn't exactly ooze sex, does it?

Print people are their own beast. I'm talking broadcast.

Thinking about it wrong. What kind of attire is generally believed good for men in society? A suit and tie. If you polled women they will prefer a man in dress clothes to a man in a t-shirt or tank top.

For what men find attractive for women it is a tight dress with heels on.

Both men and women are wearing what the opposite sex generally finds the most attractive.

 

[21]

Lugnuts! Send back my tight dress! ASAP!!

 

[Elliotte Friedman]

Well, all I can say is that I support Gingerbread's position on the issue. Her opinion is the one that matters most.

 

[21]

Lugnuts. Never mind. Send the dress to Gingerbread.

 

[RickStain]

Are you saying pants suits aren't sexy?

 

[Alma]

The heels kinda give it away for me. It's like working at sportscenter and wearing $500 shoes underneath the desk. No one's going to see them. If you're out at a practice field wearing something that could very get ruined by wearing them out there, then you're trying to get seen by your co-workers more than you doing anything for viewers who wouldn't know if you had Keds on.

Maybe Azteca does full toe-to-head camera pans, though. I dunno.

 

[goalmouth]

It remains an utter disgrace of our time that no woman is running a major broadcast network. By now, the capable women have no one to blame but themselves.

 

[21]

Not understanding the blame part. What should they be blamed for, forgetting to fill out the proper forms? Not wanting it bad enough?

 

[Azrael]

It remains an utter disgrace of our time that no woman is running a major broadcast network. By now, the capable women have no one to blame but themselves.

Anne Sweeney disagrees.

http://www.adweek.com/news/television/10-most-powerful-women-television-131635

 

[Lugnuts]

Ooops. Goalmouth needs to stop drunk-posting.