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Ah... Time to whip out my Google... (2.00 / 1)

I was hoping somebody else would link to it. This is the NYT article I meant:

Media Charged With Sexism in Clinton Coverage

By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE and JULIE BOSMAN
Published: June 13, 2008

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...

by Dumbo on Thu Jul 03, 2008 at 10:42:09 AM EST
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Let me assure you..if I made some of the comments (none / 0)

that MSM made about HRC, about a female colleague who do not agree with our project goals, I would be fired..I don't know how folks like Olbermann, or Mathews got away with it, but GE has pretty strict guidelines...
NYTimes of course have a problem with NOW's Media Hall of Shame when one of their own star columnist is prominently featured in it. What else can one expect of NYTimes?

by louisprandtl on Thu Jul 03, 2008 at 06:45:52 PM EST
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NOW's Media Hall of Shame (none / 0)

basically discredits itself. It's sour grapes bullshit.

by Dumbo on Thu Jul 03, 2008 at 08:30:18 PM EST
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And you concluded so because..??? (none / 0)

So should we have Mr. Olbermann define sexism and that women should fall in line with that definition shouldn't they?

by louisprandtl on Thu Jul 03, 2008 at 10:00:33 PM EST
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Before you attack a progressive movement (none / 0)

like NOW on a progressive blog like MyDD, I would suggest little bit of self restraint...

by louisprandtl on Thu Jul 03, 2008 at 10:02:37 PM EST
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Before you attack a progressive commentator (none / 0)

like Keith Olbermann on a progressive blog like this one, why don't you restrain yourself. This is an intramural pissing contest and little more. NOW isn't necessarily right because of who they are anymore than Keith Olbermann is necessarily right because of who he is.

I read the NOW list and commented on it elsewhere. Not everything that criticized Hillary was sexist, as the author of that list seems to portray it. If you define sexism down that way, then you make it only a tool for a personality cult.

by Dumbo on Thu Jul 03, 2008 at 10:56:16 PM EST
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As Jerome referred to Keith Olbermann (none / 0)

as a wanker in waiting..A progressive leader is somebody like Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Gore Vidal, or in previous years somebody like Martin Luther King Jr or Pete Seeger or John Henry or Susan B. Anthony...You need to get your Progressive hero role model a calibration.

Mr. Olbermann's progressiveness is illuminating when he encourages some "man" to take Hillary Clinton in an enclosed room and make sure he is the only one who comes out..His continuous sexist remarks against female actresses are also very illuminating..

You need to get educated on NOW's background..Good luck...

by louisprandtl on Thu Jul 03, 2008 at 11:11:11 PM EST
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I didn't say leader. (none / 0)

I said commentator. And please don't assume I don't know the history of NOW. I'm a gray-bearded baby-boomer, dude.

(The author communing with nature.)

by Dumbo on Thu Jul 03, 2008 at 11:57:21 PM EST
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No You said Progessive hero...thus my (none / 0)

serious suggestion that your hero worship is in a serious need for a progressive calibration..

by louisprandtl on Fri Jul 04, 2008 at 12:16:33 AM EST
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Reading comprehension problem? (none / 0)

Before you attack a progressive commentator (none / 0)

like Keith Olbermann on a progressive blog like this one, why don't you restrain yourself. This is an intramural pissing contest and little more. NOW isn't necessarily right because of who they are anymore than Keith Olbermann is necessarily right because of who he is.

I read the NOW list and commented on it elsewhere. Not everything that criticized Hillary was sexist, as the author of that list seems to portray it. If you define sexism down that way, then you make it only a tool for a personality cult.