As co-editors of the Texas Observer, Kaye Northcott and Molly Ivins used humor and embedded themselves in the feminist movement.
Kaye Northcott learned from her favorite teacher that journalism was about calling out bullshit, which she began doing with enthusiasm as editor of her high school newspaper in Houston. She continued to do so as editor of the University of Texas at Austin’sto freelance, writing for magazines and public television.
They all came, saw us, and said, “We remember our student days. They were wonderful! You’re doing a wonderful job.” And the report said, leave them alone and give them some money. I was making $60 a month, and I got boosted to $65. So, major victory. Frank Erwin didn’t take it well, but he backed off. That pretty much politicized me for the rest of my life. He made it personal.I was looking for an outlet where I didn’t have to toe the line, and there was only one such outlet in the state.
both wore blue jeans at the Capitol; we didn’t see why we had to wear dresses. It was the ’70s. We were the only women there, virtually. The only other female reporter I can remember was Kay Bailey Hutchison, who became a senator. Women were coming into their own, and it was new enough that almost everything we did was a first.
We got a lot of criticism from the daily newspaper reporters for doing that, but I got a great story out of it. We were not a daily paper, we were embedded, and we embedded ourselves a lot.There were four employees, and I always felt like a farmer with too many acres and no mules. But everyone wanted to work for it because there wasn’t anything else progressive.
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