The Nation Stats

The January 22nd edition of The Nation has arrived. There are two other editions that we'll assume are in the mail, en route. This picks up from the last check in on the stats.

In this edition, we're ignoring the letter page (billed as a "Ruckus") because we don't cover the letter pages.

Editorials & Comment
unsigned editorial (don't tell AlterPunk!)
Bruce Shapiro contribues "The Saddam Spectacle"
Victory Navasky contributes "Ford, Nixon, The Nation"
Salim Lone contributes "Destabilizing The Horn"
Bob Moser contributes "Johnny Populist"
John Nichols contributes "A Democratic Anomaly"

Seeing a problem?

No, not just that Lone would be expected to write about Iraq -- that was his UN role. Five commentarires, five men.

Columns
Calvin Trillin's "Another New Policy for Iraq"
Alexander Cockburn's "Greater Than Warren Harding"
Katha Pollitt's "Happy New Year!"

Pollitt's column is addressed in our roundtable. Readers voted and said Trillin needed to be counted ("or it would be a slap to poetry," wrote Nolanda). So you have three columns and the score is: 2 men, 1 women.

Articles
Bill Moyers' "A New Story For America"
Katrina vanden Heuvel's "Top 10 For A More Perfect Union."
Chuck Collins' "Ten Blockbuster Hearings"
John Nichols' "Oversight Returns"
Sasha Abramsky's "Blue-ing The West"

Well Stasha (not a typo) gives you more stereotyping. When they're bleeding readers, is it really necessary to continue to risk offending the south with press made stereotypes? You've got one woman in there. Score: 4 men, 1 woman.

Books & Arts
Jeff Chang's "Jay-Z"
Henry Siegman's "CARTER: Palestine Peace Not Apartheid"
Stuart Klawans on two films
Peter Gizzi with a poem

Apparently only male poets desire to be published in The Nation. Who knew? Four pieces. Score: 4 men.

Total score for issue: 15 men, 2 women.

Year to date stats: 35 men have authored (or co-authered) pieces since the first 2007 issue. How many women? 9 women. That's nearly four times as many male writers as female writes that the magazine has featured in their first three issues of 2007 (one of which was a "double issue").

Do women compose 1/4 of the adult population in the United States? No, just at The Nation.

Do you see why media reform needs to include independent or "independent" media? We thought so.