Add this sexist fact to the mountain of evidence we've seen in the past year that progress for women is not linear. The historical pattern is: Women take a few steps forward and then women are forcibly shoved back to our familiar place at the back of the line.
Alissa Krinsky at TVNewser writes:
Sam Donaldson thinks "it's a big deal." Ann Compton calls it "a quirk of the moment." Andrea Mitchell finds it "unusual." All the major TV nets and cablers - ABC, CBS, NBC/MSNBC, CNN, FNC - have male Chief White House Correspondents. . .
After all, it's "against the odds that all five are men right now," says ABC News Radio's Compton, who in 1974 became the first woman network TV correspondent assigned full-time to cover the White House, and who recently served as President of the White House Correspondents' Association. "It certainly has not been the case over the last couple of years."
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