Mattel introduces new Journalism Barbie

Barbie® I Can Be...™ News Anchor Doll, just $12.99, available this holiday season. They're not kidding about the choking hazard, either.

(via Amanda Hess, thanks SB!)

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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Teller

All that’s left is Klaus Barbie.
mn_camera

We got the bubbleheaded bleach-blonde, comes on at 5
She can tell you about the plane crash with a gleam in her eye
It’s interesting when people die, give us dirty laundry

(Don Henley)
nehpetsE

NFL locker-room playset sold separately.
Anonymous

Just a heads up. That rimshot link came up as an attack site, either my laptop has an overactive firewall or that link has been compromised.

Much like journalism has the past 10 years.
Brainspore

“TMZ, here I come!”
nehpetsE

Btw.. clicking the “rimshot” link triggered all my computer’s virus protection alarms.

(i suppose that’s what i get for the locker-room comment)
Antinous / Moderator

InstantRimshot’s been around forever. I doubt that it’s malicious.
- Markle
  
  InstantRimshot’s been around forever.
  
  Unfortunately, that’s says nothing to whether they’ve been hacked or not.
- Anonymous
  
  Well it’s not. I guess I learned a lesson. Don’t click any more links on the front page…
grimc

Available at the FOX News giftshop.
Spencer Cross

Sadly, I’m not sure that I would necessarily equate “News Anchor” with “Journalist” in this day and age.

@antinious I doubt that InstantRimshot is malicious either, but it doesn’t mean it or it’s host hasn’t been compromised by somebody that is. Longevity â‰ security.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  My hyper-aggressive AV software didn’t flag it.
- Brainspore
  
  Wait a second, if she’s the “anchor” then why does she have a handheld microphone? Isn’t that more of a “reporter” or “correspondent” accessory?
brianary

Does it come with VNRs, gossip wire service, a stack of product announcement press releases, and dramatic music generator?
Stefan Jones

@grimc:

Yes, exactly. Give Journalist Barbie a couple of years and she’ll be a Fox Newspeak babbler.
CapnMarrrrk

She has to be Television Journalist Barbie. Print Media Barbie is Workin’ at Starbucks Barbie.
aurora_f

I’m kind of partial to Computer Engineer Barbie: http://shop.mattel.com/product/index.jsp?productId=4032107

“Always a reflection of the times, this digital diva engineers the perfect geek-chic look, with hot pink accessories and sleek gadgets to match.”
- Anonymous
  
  I was going to say the same thing! Hot NERD Barbie! Now there’s the doll I’d dig!
Nylund

To avoid the Megyn Kelly mode, please be sure that the switch on the back isn’t set to evil like that Krusty the Clown doll that terrorized Homer.
Shane

For the record, tripped my symantec endpoint as well.
Daedalus

Michelle Malkin would be proud.

Also: I hear computer engineer Barbie hangs out at 4Chan. All that pink and pastel belies a woman who has seen more penis than most prostitutes.
mr.skeleton

With a proper hair cut, this might make a great Xeni Jardin action figure!
- braininavat
  
  mr.skeleton, you beat me to it! I second the call for a Xeni action figure, and I want mine in pink satin outfit that she wore when she interviewed Genesis P. Orridge.
CapnMarrrrk

You can’t mention Barbie w/o posting a link to Barbie Massacre

Anonymous

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sff9hPLTXvY
Trnck

#1 comment says all. It’s so awesome.
thatbob

God, I hate pink. And its liberal usage by American girly girls and the makers of their consumer products. Ugh. Ugh. Ugh.

(And it actually looks way better on dark men than it does on fair women, don’t ya think?)
- Sekino
  
  And it actually looks way better on dark men than it does on fair women, don’t ya think?
  
  So true!! Only it has to be dusty pink or fushia: Pepto Bismol is for digestive issues only…
nutbastard

I’m pretty sure Barbie is legally retarded. When else do you see an adult with their name written on everything they own?
Anonymous

I’m waiting for YouTube Barbie with laptop and ukulele accessories. Her belly button is a webcam.
- brie987
  
  She is already here, sans the ukulele and YouTube royalty fees:
  
  http://www.amazon.com/Mattel-R4093-Barbie-Video-Girl/dp/B0037UR206%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAJASE6HSSVXTNREYQ%26tag%3Dfstchrm-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB0037UR206
  - Anonymous
    
    Holy Crap! She is here. I got the camera location wrong though, should have known it would be a cleavage-cam.
Vidya108

I often think that the ‘career’ Barbies may be more harmful than helpful. Rather than send the message to girls (and boys) that women “can do anything they want,” they seem to reinforce the increasingly dominant view that women “can do anything they want…just as long as they’re ‘hawt’ eye-candy.” If anything, I find it *more* difficult to imagine myself — intelligent, successful, but quite un-Barbie-like in every physical way — in these particular occupational roles after seeing Barbie ‘portray’ them.
mmechanic

Who said journalism is dead?
hungryjoe

Does she come with a blue plastic shovel for digging up tar balls on the beach? Because that’s what real journalists do…
Anonymous

She’s so cute! Maybe she could be a governor someday!
Anonymous

Isn’t she the same as Stenographer Barbie?
Phlip

Ahem. Blogger Barbie. (Aggregator sub-type.)

I win!
efergus3

After daddy cut off her allowance and kicked her out of the beach house, this is where she REALLY ended up. http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/usb-pole-dancer-220912.php
DeWynken

Ron Burgundy: You are a smelly pirate hooker!
Veronica Corningstone: You look like a blueberry!
Ron Burgundy: Why don’t you go back to your home on Whore Island!
Veronica Corningstone: Well, you have bad hair!
Ron Burgundy: [shellshocked] What did you say?
Veronica Corningstone: I said, your hair looks stupid.
igpajo

Maybe she can get a
zootboing

Man, why don’t they just be honest and call it “OMG-I got my degree in “Media Communications and beauty pageants” “Journalism” is SO last century!” Barbie? (shakes head)
And the hoochie black shiny bustier and satin lapel jacket?? Really??
There ARE a few real journalists on television, but you have to tune into BBC America to see them.