Stephanie Flanders Makes A Stand For Ugy Women On The BBC
IN “BBC’s Stephanie Flanders condemns TV ageism”, BBC TV presenter Stephanie Flanders becomes the “latest high-profile journalist to criticise the lack of women over 50 on television”.
The Telegraph says that other “veteran television journalists”, including Anna Ford, Angela Rippon and Selina Scott have also accused the BBC of sexism in relation to older presenters. Ford rose to fame as the BBC’s first obese female newsreader. Miss Rippon was known for her pot-marked face and monobrow. Selina Scott was TV’s ”black Jimmy Hill”.
Says Flanders, a one-eyed, hooked nosed, spotty 39-year-old: “Having lived there [USA], I am struck by the comparison with the US, where the likes of Barbara Walters and Diane Sawyer can carry on - admittedly, still incredibly glamorous women.”
She adds: “I feel strongly about this and hope that the perception that you can’t advance beyond 50 will be seen as nonsense.”
We’ll see how Ms Flanders looks hold up…
Posted: 20th, February 2008 | In: Broadsheets, TV & Radio Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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February 21st, 2008 at 2:18 am
Oh, come on… Steph will always represent the Pony Club. She should make more use of her jodhpurs & whip on those naughty old boys at the BBC. Forget economic discipline, they need the real thing.
February 20th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
As a great admirer of Stephanie’s clear economic explanations, I fear that she has already pressed her forehead against the glass ceiling, found botox and joined the Spookey Brigade (which imo includes HilaryClinton).