U.S.A.: FEMINISTS INVADE OFFICES OF LADIES' HOME JOURNAL CLAIMING STORIES ARE TRITE

Record ID: 230330

  • Title: U.S.A.: FEMINISTS INVADE OFFICES OF LADIES' HOME JOURNAL CLAIMING STORIES ARE TRITE
  • Date: 19th March 1970
  • Summary: 1. GV EXT. THE CURTIS PUBLISHING CO. BUILDING 0.10 2. GV NAME CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY 0.14 3. SV POSTERS HANGING ON WINDOW 0.27 4. GV INT. HOLDING MEETING 0.32 5. SV PAN WOMEN TALKING TO EDITOR JOHN CARTER 1.22 6. SV WOMEN CONTINUE TO ASK QUESTIONS PAN TO CARTER SHAKING HIS HEAD 1.47 Initials KM/V/AS/PC Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 3rd April 1970 13:00
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  • Location: NEW YORK CITY, U.S.A.
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  • Country: USA
  • Reuters ID: LVA3TXEEB5UJQAF83NU34QOBUQKB
  • Story Text: WORK STOPPED AT THE OFFICES OF ONE OF AMERICA'S BEST-READ GLOSSY MAGAZINES ON WEDNESDAY (18 MARCH) WHEN IT WAS INVADED BY 150 WIDE-EYED YOUNG WOMEN WHO CLAIMED THE MAGAZINE'S CONTENTS WERE TRITE.

    TARGET OF THE MILITANT FEMINISTS, WHO CALLED THEMSELVES "MEDIA WOMEN" WAS THE LADIES' HOME JOURNAL EDITOR - CIGAR SMOKING JOHN MACK CARTER, WHEN THEY CONFRONTED IN HIS PRIVATE OFFICE. SEVERAL OF THE MAGAZINE'S MALE STAFF WERE ALSO THERE.

    THEY DEMANDED IN A STATEMENT THAT THE MAGAZINE - WHICH HAS A CIRCULATION OF 1.6 MILLION AND CLAIMS A READERSHIP OF 14 MILLION - STOPS PUBLISHING ARTICLES THAT ARE WHAT THEY CONSIDERED IRRELEVANT, UNSTIMULATING, AND DEMEANING TO THE WOMEN OF AMERICA
    NORMAL OFFICE ROUTINE BROKE UP AMID HEATED AND HIGH-PITCHED ARGUMENTS WITH BURSTS OF SOAP-BOX ORATORY.
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