Good Morning Girls

Giulia Rozzi December 4, 2007 | 4:23 pm EST

According to The New York Times morning shows are for the Miss’s saying “the fourth hour of “Today” feels less like an extension of the three-hour show than a cozy Tupperware party that never ends.”Filled with fashion reports, homemaker tips, and weight loss 101’s, early day programming has become geared toward women and rarely toward anything less than frivolous. Is it such a bad thing? I mean the common viewer of such shows is female and as a gal I can say that I am interested in makeup tips and style reports. However are these shows perpetuating the stereo-type that women have only lofty interests at heart by just reporting on handbags and halter tops and not healthcare reform and hostage situations? And according to viewers, women are bored with the rotation of boring topics.I think the gals at Jezebel best summed it up when saying What do women really want out of morning television, anyway, if not handbags, diet tips and Whoopi Goldberg? News and weather?

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