Sally Quinn is overrated
Once again, the Washington Post is claiming to have changed the women’s pages into an updated Style section. Here is the most recent reference, tied to an award for the overrated Sally Quinn: “Sally, you all know, is a force to be reckoned with. She is widely credited with creating the Style section of The Washington Post. The section used to be known in that dismissive way as the “Women’s” section. And much as my grandmother blew up tradition when she refused to go nicely to the parlor with the women after a dinner while the men talked about serious things, Sally blew up the so-called Women’s section and made it a must-read for all of Washington.”
To a degree, this is a new angle to the usual Washington Post claim. Typically, it is noted that editor Ben Bradlee – Quinn’s husband – was the one who rescued those poor, old fashioned women’s pages and created the lifestyle pages. As I have shown time and again, women’s pages across the country were changing their names and content prior to the Post’s introduction of its Style section. (My most recent challenge to the Post’s claim is in my article about Carol Sutton in American Journalism.)
Giving the Washington Post so publish credit diminishes all the work of other pioneering women’s page editors across the country.
Sally Quinn is overrated
Once again, the Washington Post is claiming to have changed the women’s pages into an updated Style section. Here is the most recent reference, tied to an award for the overrated Sally Quinn: “Sally, you all know, is a force to be reckoned with. She is widely credited with creating the Style section of The Washington Post. The section used to be known in that dismissive way as the “Women’s” section. And much as my grandmother blew up tradition when she refused to go nicely to the parlor with the women after a dinner while the men talked about serious things, Sally blew up the so-called Women’s section and made it a must-read for all of Washington.”
To a degree, this is a new angle to the usual Washington Post claim. Typically, it is noted that editor Ben Bradlee – Quinn’s husband – was the one who rescued those poor, old fashioned women’s pages and created the lifestyle pages. As I have shown time and again, women’s pages across the country were changing their names and content prior to the Post’s introduction of its Style section. (My most recent challenge to the Post’s claim is in my article about Carol Sutton in American Journalism.)
Giving the Washington Post so publish credit diminishes all the work of other pioneering women’s page editors across the country.
