Media Charged With Sexism in Clinton Coverage

Angered by what they consider sexist news coverage of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, many women and erstwhile Clinton supporters are proposing boycotts of the cable networks, putting up videos on a “Media Hall of Shame,” starting a national conversation about sexism and pushing Mrs. Clinton’s rival, Senator Barack Obama, to address the matter.

But many in the news media — with a few exceptions, including Katie Couric, the anchor of the “CBS Evening News” — see little need for reconsidering their coverage or changing their approach going forward. Rather, they say, as the Clinton campaign fell behind, it exploited a few glaring examples of sexist coverage to whip up a backlash and to try to create momentum for Mrs. Clinton.

Phil Griffin, senior vice president of NBC News and the executive in charge of MSNBC, a particular target of criticism, said that although a few mistakes had been made, that they had been corrected quickly and that the network’s overall coverage was fair.
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Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic Party, who says he was slow to pick up on charges of sexism because he is not a regular viewer of cable television, is taking up the cause after hearing an outcry from what he described as a cross-section of women, from individual voters to powerful politicians and chief executives.

“The media took a very sexist approach to Senator Clinton’s campaign,” Mr. Dean said in a recent interview.

“It’s pretty appalling,” he said, adding that the issue resonates because Mrs. Clinton “got treated the way a lot of women got treated their whole lives.”

Mr. Dean and others are now calling for a “national discussion” of sexism.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/13/us/politics/13women.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

Feminism is still fought through ridicule and derision in a way that should not be acceptable.

If Matthews called Clinton "Madam DeFarge," "Nurse Ratchet," and "Lady MacBeth," how come he's never called McCain "Capt. Queeg?"

If Matthews had so much as compared Obama to Sidney Portier in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, he'd be off the air. Rightfully so.

Why was the comentariat hounding her out of a close race?

HE's the guy that should have put a stop to the 'Obama is a Muslim' crap and noted there's actually nothing wrong with being a Muslim.

HE's the guy that should have called on Matthews for calling Clinton names and all of MSNBC for trying to hound her out of a close race.

Makes me sick every time I hear that Mrs. Entitled-to-be-queen got mistreated.

:rofl:

fucking pathetic

however the problem with the charges being made is that the entire media is sexist and discriminated against Clinton. I don't buy it for a minute.

I guess they became sexist after that?