Reviews for Thirty Seconds to Air

The average rating for Thirty Seconds to Air based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-04-30 00:00:00 Nelson Chen I was drawn to this book because, well, I'm a woman and a journalist and a bit of a history geek. I loved reading about the stunt reports and the sob sisters and realizing that there are still many connections to the way in which women are expected to report (and perform their job) today. Parts of the book read a bit too academic which slowed it down but I learned that I'm part of a long tradition ... and that women writing have always been as much THE story as the actual story they're covering.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-06-18 00:00:00 Josh Elliot Sharply written scholarly study of the "Girl Reporter" (and other women journalists) that subtly glosses the treatment of the female body and women journalists' public personae in the press during the modern period. Lutes' last chapter on how this legacy of women reporters affects modern novelists like Willa Cather and Djuna Barnes is especially powerful. Well-structured and helpful insights. Fascinating to see how Henry James revised Henrietta Stackpole in Portrait of a Lady to condemn her and her ilk.