Generally speaking, you followed your baseball team by who favored it in the sports reporting. Often I would hear people say: The NY News… oh that’s a Dodger paper, or the Times a Yankee paper, etc.
This morning as I perused through the sports pages of the NY News I noticed two lead stories with women reporters. I thought how strange the realization is, women reporting from inside the locker room, women with solid reporting credentials and meaningful opinions. The best thing is they are interesting and informative, way to go ladies.
In the old days you had guys like Dick Young, Marty Appel, and Red Smith as the deans of NYC sports reporting, they wrote books and interesting articles for magazines, they had real prejudices and opinions that people accepted as gospel. Today the landscape has changed. If you go back to the early days of big money football when there was this new awareness of the NFL and Sunday Night Football on TV, there was even a woman whose last named was George if I remember correctly for a short while.
Spending a lot of time in hospitals, medical centers and rehabilitation places, whenever someone says the doctor will come by and explain it to me and I envision a male doctor, about early sixties, with graying temples, a white coat, and a stethoscope hanging around his neck, instead, a young woman, usually from the western regions of Asia such as Pakistan or India appears. It doesn’t matter what the gender is; only the expertise, and they are most capable as doctors.
I guess what is happening is women are becoming part of the whole picture, moiré influential, and may start dominating the day-to-day events on a global scale.
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