At the beginning of the race Sen. Clinton was viewed as the front runner and Barack Obama was considered the underdog. As a result the media scrutinized the Clinton campaign with more intensity than Barrack Obama. As time went on Barack Obama became the front runner and Hillary became underdog. Hillary drew attention to the fact that she was getting the same amount of scrutiny as before, while Barack Obama, the front runner, was not receiving the same kind of scrutiny that she did as the front runner. The problem with this is that she commented on that too late and by the time Barack Obama received more appropriate scrutiny for his election status, the damage to Hillary’s campaign had already been done.http://www.bluehampshire.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=4086
It makes you wonder what type of reaction reporters would have had if this was Obama joking in a similar way.
I do believe the media was bias towards Sen. Clinton and the media simply linking Senator Obama and sexism comments affected her nomination. I also blame the poor job of her campaign: they ignored caucus states, and let Sen. Obama run up the score so much that it became virtually impossible for her to stop him. Also, her campaign never did any serious opposition research on Sen. Obama. For example, the comments made by Reverend Wright were delivered on Sept. 16, 2001, had they been made public at the start of the race, I have a feeling there would have been a different ending to these primaries.
Her campaign relied too heavily on Bill Clinton’s presence, when it might not have hurt to send Bill on vacation to Rio.
At the beginning her opinion was more enticing to report since she was NY senator and former first lady, not to mention viewed as polarizing, which equals headlines. The problem with her campaign, according to Howard Kurtz from The Washington Post, was that “her campaign faced lingering resentment among many reporters over the lack of access to [Hillary Clinton] and the aggressive style of some of her people, who rejected stories they dislike.” This created animosity among reporters and if they don’t like you they are not going to say anything nice about you.
An example of the scrutiny double standard is the media portrayal of Bill Clinton as a liability and Barack Obama as a rockstar. Hillary’s comments were usually held at a higher standard while Obama’s created moderate attention. For instance, Obama’s use of the term “D-Punjab” referring to the Clintons investments in India and Hillary’s fund-raising among Indian-Americans created moderate attention, Obama apologized and then declared the matter closed. The media agreed and continued their usual Hilary rampage.
Another example of media bias towards Sen. Clinton is when the media criticized her for having an icy demeanor. Her comments at a rally in Davenport, Iowa were over analyzed and met with suspicion when she was just trying to be funny. What was intended as a joke in a attempt to warm her so- called icy demeanor was over analyzed and turned into a negative.
An example of the scrutiny double standard is the media portrayal of Bill Clinton as a liability and Barack Obama as a rockstar. Hillary’s comments were usually held at a higher standard while Obama’s created moderate attention. For instance, Obama’s use of the term “D-Punjab” referring to the Clintons investments in India and Hillary’s fund-raising among Indian-Americans created moderate attention, Obama apologized and then declared the matter closed. The media agreed and continued their usual Hilary rampage.
Another example of media bias towards Sen. Clinton is when the media criticized her for having an icy demeanor. Her comments at a rally in Davenport, Iowa were over analyzed and met with suspicion when she was just trying to be funny. What was intended as a joke in a attempt to warm her so- called icy demeanor was over analyzed and turned into a negative.
It makes you wonder what type of reaction reporters would have had if this was Obama joking in a similar way.
Hillary supporters also complained of bias against her because of sexism. Some of the comments from the media were really out of hand. Take for example Chris Matthews comments on Senator Clinton: "I think the Hillary appeal has always been about the mix of toughness and sympathy. Let's not forget, and I'll be brutal, the reason she's a US Senator, the reason she's a candidate for President, the reason she may be a front runner, is that her husband messed around...That's how she got to be a Senator from New York. We keep forgetting it. She didn't win it on her merit, she won because everybody felt, 'My God, this woman stood up under humiliation,' right? That's what happened. That's how it happened. Many other comments from different journalist where shown in TV and many of them seem to be about women's roles, they negativaly linked Hillary with women stereo types. Check out this the mad as hell video:
I do believe the media was bias towards Sen. Clinton and the media simply linking Senator Obama and sexism comments affected her nomination. I also blame the poor job of her campaign: they ignored caucus states, and let Sen. Obama run up the score so much that it became virtually impossible for her to stop him. Also, her campaign never did any serious opposition research on Sen. Obama. For example, the comments made by Reverend Wright were delivered on Sept. 16, 2001, had they been made public at the start of the race, I have a feeling there would have been a different ending to these primaries.
Her campaign relied too heavily on Bill Clinton’s presence, when it might not have hurt to send Bill on vacation to Rio.
4 comments:
Nice job on the blog. I like the video that you added in, I think it particularly illustrates your point about the "overanalysis" of Hillary.
I thought your blog was great. It looks very professional and your views were clearly stated. The content is debatable, which makes the blog very interesting.
Good job on your blog, Oscar. The video and links make your arguement more appoachable and accessible. I believe that the press did has a bias toawrd Hillary yet, she has played the 'politics game' long enough to have been able to protect herself. In my opinion, she should have left Bill on the back burner until the later part of the primaries. Suggestions for your blog... not much. Good job.
As your fellow group members note here, the video that you inserted is very useful in providing an example of the kind of more negative coverage you are arguing Hillary Clinton was subject to here. You also do a nice job of inserting your own opinion into the post. One thing I think you may want to distinguish between here are the two different ways in which Clinton supporters claimed that media bias worked against her - there was the assertion that the media was biased against her because they simply liked Obama better, and there was the claim that they were biased against her because of sexism. You seem mostly to be dealing with the first argument, but the nutcracker story really relates to the second, and I think that you had an intriguing link to that blog showing it was sold at a media-outlet affiliated store! I think you might address here whether these two different kinds of bias are related, maybe which you find more credible, and what it means for a campaign to argue that both are going on.
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