Thursday, November 24, 2005

Party Girl The blogosphere is alight this Thanksgiving morning with the story of the Chinese "Party" Girl blogger who, with decided irreverence and irony, is pushing the envelope of free electronic expression in China. Use your assets I say. (why else do I call this site Girl in the Locker Room?) So read her story here in the NYTimes. "I don't know if I can be counted as a successful Web cam dance girl," that early post continued. "But I'm sure that looking around the world, if I am not the one with the highest diploma, I am definitely the dance babe who reads the most and thinks the deepest, and I'm most likely the only party member among them."                            NY Times Also check the story of Lara Logan (no, not  a Superman strip), another electronic reporter using all her assets to be CBS's newest foreign correspondent adventurer, most successfully in Afghanistan and Baghdad. The NYTimes dubbed her War Zone 'It Girl.' So she's good-looking. You gonna tell me Peter Jennings didn't use that. Logan makes a good point when she says: "There isn't a journalist alive who won't admit to you they use every advantage they have." In that respect, she said, she was no different from the generations of male reporters who had employed various means to ingratiate themselves with the military. "Some guys come from a military background, and they'll use that," she said. "Some guys are very sporty, and they'll play on the sporty thing."               NYTimes 10:31:30 AM    comment []

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