Sexism in the Media, 1003 verse!

[lotesse]

This is why I stopped wanting to be a journalist.








The first one is this week's cover of The New Republic. I couldn't get a full shot of the second cover, this time of the National Review, but it uses the above image of Michelle Obama along with the tag "Mrs. Grievance: Michelle Obama and Her Discontent."

I hate the media so much right now. I hate them for their hideously unfair and misogynistic treatment of Hillary Rodham Clinton - I'm an Obama supporter, but they've crossed the line so many times it's not even there any more. And that National Review cover - ! Who the hell do these people think they are? We're fortunate enough to live in an age where formidable women can be involved in politics. I mean, Michelle Obama is the bomb! And yet we allow them to be this badly treated in the public press?

Journalism is dead, I swear.

Comments

[lotesse]

Agreed. Though at least with the women's mags they're only talking about relatively frivolous things - when political rags get in on the women-hating, it has major, major effects. What they're doing here is ridiculously irresponsible.

Anyway, I don't see that we even need to invent any villains. After all, we've always got McCain.