And the Blondes Shall Lead Us...

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The Slate's all over "the blonde takeover" by the media. I'm assuming the plan is to hypnotize the audience while reporting half-facts and barely-researched information. Money quotes from writer/editor Jack Shafer:

" Joanna Pitman estimates in On Blondes that only one in 20 white adult Americans is a genuine blond, yet one in three adult American females has the look. If you do the math, it's clear that many female newscasters lie about their true hair color every time they appear on television. "

"We associate blond with youth, she [Pitman] writes, because the hair of babies and that of young children tends to become wan and darken with age."

"Allow me to pause from all of this hurtful talk objectifying accomplished female journalists to say a few cruel things about TV's Aryan Brotherhood, led by the 60-year-old glimmer twins Lou Dobbs (CNN) and Chris Matthews (MSNBC). If they're both true blonds at 60, they should be put on display at a medical museum..."

"Blond hair may have already passed as a sexual signifier on news networks. The new blond is lips, specifically what people inside the industry call "Fox lips," and they are worn by Fox's Laurie Dhue, Fox's Gretchen Carlson, and MSNBC's Rita Cosby, three top blondes."

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