Do the Irish media marginalise women?
Published September 4th, 2006 in GeneralInteresting comment by a work colleague during one of our ongoing weekly meetings about the irish media landscape. We were discussing the huge coverage garnered by Roy Keane’s appointment as the Sunderland manager despite his previous feud with the club’s chairman when they were players.
We were debating why it made the front pages despite being a sports story and half the room though it was because the majority of news editors in Ireland are men. This led my colleague to note that despite the fact that the media are increasingly trying to attract a female audience, women are marginalised in their publications.
Models in bikinis constantly are featured in the photos picked up in the press and articles aimed at the female audience are pushed into supplements.
So is there a sexist attitude amongst the Irish media or is the Roy Keane story an example of how embedded sport is within our culture?
Speaking of Roy Keane, I was shocked when I checked out the video I uploaded to YouTube of Eamon Dunphy’s rant following Keane’s axing by Manchester United. It’s been viewed almost 12,000 times! That says something about Ireland’s fascination with Keane. Here it is again for those who haven’t watched the segment.
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Worth noting that at The Irish Times, the editor and news editor positions are both held by women. The paper ran with Roy on the front.
the roy story is more interesting from the pov of the media myth, than media gender issues. how do we know there was a “feud” between roy and st niall? because the media told us so. aside from some snide comments penned by the dunph in his ghost-written kean autobiography, what have we got to base this story on? yet the media built it up and built it up and built it up to liberty valance proportions - and now that roy and st niall are working together, the media have (naturally) returned to their own creation. it’s what they do. they did it with the smoking ban, they do it with everything.