‘A discreet orgy’: A timely TV series focuses on women’s treatment in 1960s newsrooms

Sad!

Margaret Sullivan writes for the Washington Post:

When Harry Waters came to Newsweek magazine in 1962, “it was a discreet orgy,” he later told journalist Lynn Povich. When he interviewed, his editor described the perks: “The best part of the job is that you get to screw the researchers.”

The researchers, of course, were young women. The reporters and editors were men.

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