Summary of Ramin Setoodeh's Ladies Who Punch

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 Barbara Walters was the most powerful woman in news, and she was miserable. The View, her daytime talk show, had suffered through a series of embarrassing controversies in just a few months, and Rosie O'Donnell was largely to blame.
#2 The View, which debuted one year before Sex and the City, even played like the unscripted version. It made the idea of a single talk show host seem quaint. In our supersize culture, why settle for one voice when you can have five.
#3 The View paved the way for other panel shows, such as The Real and The Talk, which emphasized less politics and more celebrity. The mood in America in 1997 was different from what it is now. Back then, it was socially acceptable for men to yammer about their feelings.
#4 The View was a gauge of national moods. If a political topic was discussed, it was a sign of how the public was feeling about it.

Sujets

• Politique
• Lettres et linguistique
• Rich & Famous
• Biography
• Famous
• Rich
• Autobiography

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 15 septembre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798350001945
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Ramin Setoodeh's Ladies Who Punch
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Barbara Walters was the most powerful woman in news, and she was miserable. The View, her daytime talk show, had suffered through a series of embarrassing controversies in just a few months, and Rosie O'Donnell was largely to blame.

#2

The View, which debuted one year before Sex and the City, even played like the unscripted version. It made the idea of a single talk show host seem quaint. In our supersize culture, why settle for one voice when you can have five.

#3

The View paved the way for other panel shows, such as The Real and The Talk, which emphasized less politics and more celebrity. The mood in America in 1997 was different from what it is now. Back then, it was socially acceptable for men to yammer about their feelings.

#4

The View was a gauge of national moods. If a political topic was discussed, it was a sign of how the public was feeling about it.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

For a long time, nobody knew why Barbara Walters would want to get into the murky waters of daytime talk shows. This was the genre that gave rise to paternity tests, plastic surgery, and too fat to wear.

#2

Most talk shows are cobbled together quickly and inexpensively. The biggest expense is usually the host’s salary, which is usually not very high. The audience is impatient and fickle, with an appetite for sauce.

#3

Barbara Walters was a journalist who was the first female co-host of a nightly news program. She was also the first female co-anchor of a news program, and she broke another glass ceiling when she left NBC for ABC in 1976.

#4

The View was born out of a conversation between a mother and her daughter. Barbara always pondered new ways to expand her empire, and in her late sixties, she had a fresh idea.

#5

In 1996, Barbara began developing a show around the idea of women of different generations debating the headlines of the day. She chose Geddie as her producer because she trusted him.

#6

Geddie and Barbara wrote a proposal for what they could slot into the 11 a. m. time slot. Their show was supposed to be a bitchy show, but Barbara didn’t want it to be. They took Barbara to a daytime focus group, where she said she got it from USA Today and the Daily News.

#7

Outside of Siskel Ebert, which was a show featuring two middle-aged white men reviewing movies, most TV shows did not thrive on so much opinion. It would be another five years before American Idol debuted and opened the floodgates on a parade of self-proclaimed experts giving their nasty critiques on everything from fashion to food.
Insights from Chapter 3

#1

Barbara Walters was missing one key ingredient for her new daytime show: her outspoken co-hosts. She searched for four female co-hosts between the ages of twenty and fifty, not too high and not too low, and hired Meredith Vieira, an ex–60 Minutes correspondent, for the job.