sources. i want to turn now to women and television, and more specifically women on television, anchor women, and how they dress. check out this headline from the huffington post this week. this is the kind of bs that women in television have to deal with. the huffington post was talking about a morning show war over in brittain where executives from one network were apparently so anxious to hike up the ratings they suggested the anchor woman should hike up her skirts. the coverage of that controversy had me pondering how much change there has been in this country in the way television anchor women have changed their dress. we re trying to see if there is a dress code. it sure seems like there s an arms race. almost no one wears dresses with sleeves anymore. let me start with fox news. the new program called outnumbered shows four women and one man. when we looked elsewhere on this network, msnbc, cbs, abc, we saw sleeveless dresses and shorter
are we perfect because we re wearing sleeveless? that s the perfect place to start. we didn t know this ahead of time, by the way. i one be derd because you were at cnn for many years, how have you seen the attention to female anchor outfits change? when i was a local news reporter and anchor in atlanta, i wore a blazer that had a pocket that said action news 5. we ve come a long way. gray blazer, very attractive. takes the guesswork out of choosing your outfit. i think what happened in london is outrageous. think about it, back then people were openly discriminating against women. you ve brought some notes with you, all of the different things you have been told on how to dress over the years. when you called and said, you know, do you want to come join us to talk about this, i laughed. i started thinking. i don t think it s changed that