The Producer of Anderson Cooper 360 attacked competitor Greta Van Susteren and her show stating:

We're a news program," while Ms. Van Susteren's show is "not a news program," Mr. Doss told TVNewser on Tuesday. "It's missing-person-of-the-day. There's an audience for that, but it's not what we do. We're covering the world, not just covering who's missing today.

Doss was implying Ven Susteren's show was unintellectual and said it lacked international news. The gist was that his show was important news and her show wasn't. The media is extremely male dominated and this appears to be another example of men trying to push women out of "their" territory in order to maintain dominance.

Van Susteren responded, "I have been doing my own job and not insulting them [CNN] or trying to make less of them. They fired first and I am responding as I am sure you would do likewise. ... that the CNN executive producer of Anderson Cooper is taking a swipe at our hard work but I am going to defend my staff from what is intended to pretend our show is not news.
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They do news of the day. We do news of the day.

They do weather, we do weather. You would think with all their marketing that Anderson Cooper was the only one who covered Katrina....we were there, all producers were there, all my colleagues were there...but guess what? so was every one else in every news outlet in the nation!! http://gretawire.foxnews.com/2008/07/04/ time-to-keep-cnn-honest-something-they-s ay-they-are-doing-about-everyone-elsehhm /
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CNN does politics at 10, we do politics at 10. We have traveled with the President on 2 overseas trips -- which BOTH included lengthy one on one interviews with the President in less than a year's time. I have interviewed Secretary of State Rice...President Clinton...and every candidate for President including the two current nominees. I have had multiple interviews with Senator Hillary Clinton, President Clinton, President George H. W. Bush, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, First Lady Barbara Bush and even traveled throughout the Middle East with First Lady Laura Bush. I could go on and on. I guess these are missing persons, too. Hhm...
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Now let me get to crime. Do not be fooled...CNN at 10pm does crime. I have a giant list of crimes CNN has covered at 10pm. Here is the difference - we do it better. So yes, we get lots of attention. We do it much better because I leave the studio and take the viewers to many crime scenes. Plus, unlike those on the side lines, I am the real thing - I spent 15 years in the criminal courts trying criminal cases and don't get my information from a teleprompter...I get it from both investigation and experience. And by the way, missing persons are important. Perhaps if CNN hit the road and spoke to the families they would understand -- something you don't get from the studio.

It is true....CNN does polygamy better. I will give that to them -- but it is because they have so much more experience with the polygamy story than any other network. They were obsessed with it...night after night after night...even assigning multiple correspondents to the story to report only for Anderson Cooper.

CNN has gone to much trouble to advertise Anderson Cooper's show. The media grapevine says CNN spent an unprecedented 27 million to market Cooper in one year yet Van Susteren's show gets higher ratings than his show. Greta has been the #1 female newscaster for abut 13 years and On the Record has been one of the top 5 cable news shows for many years. And she has achieved this prominence with a smaller team than Anderson Cooper has. Greta has approximately 12 employees, Anderson has approximately 60 employees.

Apparently Doss was threatened by Greta's success and there's nothing wrong with that considering the show that he is in charge of producing directly competes with Greta's show and she really is a business threat. However, the way in which he attacked her show (and by extension her personally) is typically sexist such as the implication of her show being unintellectual (women are considered less mental then men). Also, Doss labeled Van Susteren's show as being not in tune with important international events (women are considered more domestic than men). Thus, Doss's attack whether conscious or unconscious, had a sexist slant.

Doss's attack reflects efforts by sexist men to maintain male dominance of media by attacking women who gain the reins to a part of this power, either as newscasters who see and report the news or as players like Hillary Clinton who lives politics.  Women create news and we have an equal right and obligation to report the news. If there are both female and male reporters in equal numbers that will help us understand the news better, and it will be reported more accurately and more completely.