Media and ‘mingers’
That Doyle herself has chosen voluntarily to step down from her prime time news slot after 33 successful years of broadcasting, is neither here nor there: what is however, is the issue of older women in the highly visual medium of television.
A recent comment by media veteran Esther Rantzen highlights the different attitudes of management at RTÉ and Britain’s BBC. Despite an award-winning career that ultimately spanned more than four decades, the 71-year-old journalist and broadcaster confessed to dying her hair blonde “as a way of trying to ensure that I kept my job past the age of 40”.
