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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThe Sexist Press
A lot of the media coverage of Hillary Clinton reeks of sexism.
Journalists, like everyone, assume certain things are true. One of those things is that journalists serve democracy by questioning presidential candidates and holding them to account. This is a good assumption in theory.
In practice, not so much.
Prior to Labor Day, Hillary Clinton had not held a press conference in months. Withholding access was no doubt a source of great annoyance among reporters. That gets you little sympathy, though. On Twitter, reporters sought sympathy by appealing to a higher principle. We do it for you, dear voter, said NBC's Katy Tur.
If that were true, reporting on Clinton's first press conference in 275 days should have revealed things that voters care about, such as her thoughts on the Syrian civil war, collective bargaining rights, the Trans-Pacific Partnership and a host of other important issues.
Instead, we got reporting about what journalists thought was news: that Clinton held a press conference. To be sure, as NPR's Tamara Keith noted, Donald Trump has counted the days since her last press conference. But that's a convenient rationale for weeks of bellyaching by the press.
Journalists, like everyone, assume certain things are true. One of those things is that journalists serve democracy by questioning presidential candidates and holding them to account. This is a good assumption in theory.
In practice, not so much.
Prior to Labor Day, Hillary Clinton had not held a press conference in months. Withholding access was no doubt a source of great annoyance among reporters. That gets you little sympathy, though. On Twitter, reporters sought sympathy by appealing to a higher principle. We do it for you, dear voter, said NBC's Katy Tur.
If that were true, reporting on Clinton's first press conference in 275 days should have revealed things that voters care about, such as her thoughts on the Syrian civil war, collective bargaining rights, the Trans-Pacific Partnership and a host of other important issues.
Instead, we got reporting about what journalists thought was news: that Clinton held a press conference. To be sure, as NPR's Tamara Keith noted, Donald Trump has counted the days since her last press conference. But that's a convenient rationale for weeks of bellyaching by the press.
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2016-09-06/medias-sexist-coverage-of-hillary-clinton
It's nice to see more people catching on.
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The Sexist Press (Original Post)
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Sep 2016
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sheshe2
(89,540 posts)1. Kick Rec Bump!
meow2u3
(25,015 posts)2. K&R for exposure
It's about time someone called out the media's hostility towards HRC for what it really is: pure, unadulterated sexism, even if it's unconscious sexism.
niyad
(122,093 posts)3. waiting for the denialists--you know, the ones who insist sexism has nothing to do with
the coverage, or the hatred and mistrust for her, etc., etc., etc.
That's the standard excuse for denying the existence of sexist hatred of HRC.
deurbano
(2,960 posts)6. K&R times a million