Every Stone

This column makes some interesting points, albeit as offensively as possible. The below paragraph is pretty on-point:

First of all, let’s just get this out of the way: The idea that anyone in the media world gives a shit about the dignity of women, black or white, is a ridiculous joke. America’s TV networks have spent the last forty years falling over each other trying to find better and more efficient ways to sell tits to the 18-to-35 demographic. They make hour-long prime-time reality dramas these days about shopping-obsessed sluts hitting each other with pocketbooks, for Christ’s sake. Paris Hilton — dumb, rich — gets her own prime-time show. MTV, the teenie mags, the pop music industry, they’re basically all an endless parade of skinny, half-naked brainless women selling makeup and jeans to neurotic, self-hating, weight-obsessed little girls.

Even in all the furor, the real issues regarding Imus and even the response to Imus are being ignored. A national response instance-by-instance depending on the relative strength or weakness of the media cycle that week is absurd and inefficient. Media Matters tracks these things daily. I’ve pitched an idea to Campus Progress about showing how often and how egregiously celebrities and politicians, prominent public figures, make remarks and comments like those of Imus and just as unthinkingly, and offering a skill set on how to respond to this on campus and nationally.