I'm also the guy that's listening and hearing everything

Why is it so hard to believe the literally thousands of women that talk about their experiences in videos, twitter, tumblr, blogs, ect?

I may have misread you, so I genuinely want to clear this up. You're a man? A man who's asking why he doesn't hear catcalling? That's the situation here?

Then you're not the type of reporter who's assigned to cover the royal family; you're a basic shlepper who gets sent out on last-minute assignments when a drunk rolls his car. Being asked to dress respectfully is basic courtesy. Maybe if you kept a nice change of clothes in your car you'd get better opportunities.

And the US State Department does? Oddly enough, I didn't notice too many people in sweats when the President and First Lady of the United States paid a state visit to the United Kingdom in 2011.

arent' they guests when they visit other countries? shouldn't they respect the way other countries/cultures dress? who are they to come to another country and start dictating how people dress?

News programs clamor to get in the room with celebs and these are some of the biggest in the world. You expect me to believe that if your producer says, "we want this story, you're doing it, go put on a suit and tie.", you're going to go all Patrick Henry on his/her ass?

Not really. A scheduled event, sure. But let's say I'm an understaffed newsroom (hi, 2014) and I have to hit and run covering several things.

my response to this is fuck you princess and the hell over yourself.

I don't disagree with you but I think it's news because didn't we win a war against the british to get them to stop telling us what to do or something?

There will be more studies like this about high-powered/promising women, one of which I'm part of, and they'll implicate husbands and the usual suspects in business, though perhaps more forcibly than before.

My husband tried to pull this shit on me after talking a long bullshit 50/50 child/home-work line, and for the…

I feel like your'e saying super contradictory things here. If you dress to work, that includes being appropriately dressed for the event you're covering. You said you already have a go-bag on you so the problem here is... what exactly?

Not to mention, they teach you this in J school. I vividly remember by professor telling us to always have a go bag with dress shoes and a shirt and blazer ready at the very least because you just never know what you might have to cover last minute and it reflects badly on you and your organization if you turn up…

I think so. I'm no fan of the Royal family, but the "on formal occasions" bit makes this ok with me. Basically they don't want scruffy journos in jeans messing up the shots of the formal event, since going to formal events and being photographed looking formal at formal events is their entire point. I don't think its…

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I read this a day or two ago on another site and was all, "WTF, you aren't the boss of us!" Now that I read it again, it merely says to dress formally if the occasion is formal. I don't read anything here that says "a tux/evening gown must be worn at all times, Royalty 4evah!" I do feel bad that techs hauling…

I spent 10 years working as a TV tech. Dress codes aren't all that unusual - whether it be show blacks, corporate casual, or, occasionally, formal.

I also don't see how a gig like that would require much heavy lifting. A handheld camera and a tripod, maybe a mic and a light if there is on-camera talent, as well. …

Point taken, but the Royals are official representatives of their country, a nation the US is friends with, allies even. Dressing for the occasion is a part of being respectful, no matter which country a representative comes from. Journalists behaving the way they're supposed to behave is therefor IMHO not news…

Nail. Head.

Good for them. Our society is already too sloppy/laid-back. Sad, IMHO.