Katie Couric, the first female main-stream reporter who had been claimed to wearing revealing clothes during her reporting hours. According to the video we watched in class, she said, "Now every female news reporters are wearing revealing clothes, for the competition that is there". So why did she wear these revealing clothes? To get famous? Is she putting a stereotype among men too? By means, guys will watch t.v that involves a hot girl, which is a stereotype that I assume she had suggested.
So why did she do it in the first place? During the interview, in which the girls try to defend what their gender roles ought to be, she was just left there stuttering. It's not like it's a coincidence she is wearing uncomfortable revealing clothes.
Well here's something, she's wrong about being the first famous female reporter. The previous female reporter, whom Katie had replaced, was named Jane Pauly. Jane Pauly, through the images I've searched through, has never worn as revealing outfit as Katie, and claimed she was kicked out only because Katie was younger, and more attractive. As for Jane was an older lady, and Ms. Norville had that claim and was a critic of Katie. However, Katie Couric still got the job, because the NBC had hired her, and who knows, nbc may have hired her, assuming that she'll help the coropration get more views due to her attractiveness.
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She had started out as the desk assistant of the ABC news, and she claimed that she had to work her way up to be the main-stream reporter. Nice, but how did she work her way up? Why isn't the NBC not giving us an answer why she was hired? A specific one, instead of, well she's a "hard worker", becasue "hard working" is obviously going to be on everyones resumes. I guess her way of "working her way up" was to dress revealing clothes, just so she can get more views based on her looks and not how interesting her reports are. She may have thought it was the only way to get famous, because the men will not hire women if they're ugly and have a really good reporting skills, because the viewers don't want to veiw someone that will scare them away, especially when the t.v is in H.D. So I assume she didn't "start" the revealing, sexy, female news reporter competition, because she wanted to get the job she had the passion for, but with only one way to get it. Every female reporter today may have taken this idea to get their desired job.
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Ben said, "Her utility is the play here". Is that a mis-use of a diction? Or is he telling the honest truth through his teeth? Could this be the truth, the truth of why she was hired, and promoted to a first ever "main-stream" female reporter?
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