Tag Archives: Media
Let’s avoid the slut shaming headlines, shall we?
TweetDear American Media, can we not write headlines like this: This Reuters article does something pretty annoying in my view. It tries to piecemeal a triangle between Paula Broadwell, Jill Kelley and Holly Petraeus, struggling to cobble a narrative arc ultimately leading us down the path to absolve David Petraeus as if Guido Anselmi in Felini’s [...]
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U.S.-focused Sandy coverage indicative of media ethnocentricity
TweetLook, I’m from South Jersey. I understand that the storm has been devastating to a ton of people all along the East Coast. But if I were to take most media coverage at face value, that’s just about the ONLY places I’d know have been hit. While media coverage has harped on those affected in [...]
Pretending to be gay?
TweetEd. note: This post is part of the second round of the Feministing “So You Think You Can Blog” contributor contest (background here). Stay tuned all week as our six finalists take turns turns covering the blog and giving us a sense of their personal contributor style. The winner of the contest and newest member [...]
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Two cents on the polls and the noise
TweetFollowing all of the threads and commentary to our great national contest, I needed to read something centering. Here’s 1988 Joan Didion on the presidential campaign: When we talk about the process, then, we are talking, increasingly, not about “the democratic process,” or the general mechanism affording the citizens of a state a voice in [...]
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