"...and we already have twenty-six men who can do the what-she-meant hit," a booker said, according to sources close to the situation, as Gloria Steinem's death crossed the assignment desk.
We already have twenty-six men who can do the what-she-meant hit.
The activist and Ms. magazine co-founder died at 92 in New York. Her Instagram and The Gloria Steinem Foundation posted it together. No cause was given. Cable treated those facts as settled and the rest as a booking problem.
Newsrooms that skipped her for years discovered a sudden need for a full Thursday hour. Bookers wanted a guest who could say second wave without a search, praise her in twenty-six seconds, and still toss the last question to a man in a navy suit. The life was public. The panic was about the clock.
Nobody close to the shows feared a hole in the culture. They feared a hole in the hour.
