WHY ARE NEWS MEDIA ORGANIZATIONS SUCH CESSPITS OF MISOGYNY, DISCRIMINATION, AND ABUSE? ‘They Shun Us in the Newsroom’: NY1 Women Who Sued For Discrimination Say They’re Facing Retaliation. Some of it sounds more like cattiness than Norma Rae stuff: “The producer said he personally saw a fellow NY1 reporter comment that Shaughnessy, an anchor and reporter, was too old to be wearing a long-sleeved shirt with cut out shoulders—an incident also described by another former NY1 producer.”