The sheer number of women reporters makes a diference. Adam Nagourney wrote about the wives of the candidates during the primaries in the New York Times, and then followed up with a Sunday piece on the surge in women running for state and Federal offices this year. Five women and three men. Reporters Andrea Mitchell of NBC News and Martha Brant of Newsweek got prime broadcast time and column space for their stories out of Bosnia. Ron Fournier of the Associated Press.
Some stories still separate the women from the boys.
Buchanan, however, had made it clear that he opposed abortionm in ALL cases. An important news story, without doubt. Well, maybe not. Jill Zuckman, covering Dole for the Globe, remembers thinking at the time the Senator had misspoken. Later, however, she discovered that the male reporters hardly hit the enter key.