Sometimes I love – like SERIOUSLY – love the copy and paste function.

The Most Influential Women in Media is based on money, fame, audience and power. Money is determined by an estimation of earnings from approximately July 2008 to July 2009. Audience is determined by average Nielsen Media Research numbers for television ratings and net traffic for the past 12 months. Fame and influence is determined by overall mentions on Factiva and by social media outreach, or the amount of followers on Twitter and friends on Facebook

THE MOST INFLUENTIAL WOMEN IN MEDIA IS BASED ON MONEY, FAME, AUDIENCE, AND POWER.

Minus the “audience” bit, I could have SWORN I read something back in my younger years about basing anything on money, fame, and power usually leads you down the wrong path.

I think Utne’s list of 50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World is actually much more refreshing, uplifting, and real.

Let’s start a fresh list; a list of people who actually think women of the world MATTER and actually WORK for little or no money.

Who do YOU think are the most influential women in media?

Let me know who and why and perhaps I’ll write a rebuttal, with a link, to Forbes telling them to kiss my big, round pregnant belly.
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update

I just spent 30 minutes writing an update and now it’s gone. In a nutshell, I wanted to hat tip Joan Kelly (first in comments) who helped me clarify my original point. I do not think income runs parallel to sincerity in one’s work. I meant that I wanted to recognize women who do back-breaking work and are barely scraping by with their families. I agree with JK – most of the influential women in my life are sacrificing and trading one good for another to make ends meet to buy groceries.

How do WE define “influential” people in our lives?