Through discussions on listservs, women responding to the Newsweek list shared their own champions: women like Esther Dyson, Mona Eltahawy, Latoya Peterson, Anna Holmes, Jillian York, Cheryl Contee, Gina Trapani, Samhita Mukhopadyay, Lisa Stone, Elisa Camahort Page, Melissa Pierce, Elizabeth Stark, Tara Hunt and Cindy Gallop.
With its snappy theme songs, soap-operatic continuities (Laci Peterson, runaway brides, the life and death of Anna Nicole Smith), and a cast of characters ranging from photogenic newsreaders to egomaniacal pundits, contemporary television journalism rivals, in its shallowness and sensationalism, the finest works of the late Aaron Spelling.