Re: No accounting for taste.

whisky-dave wrote:
> "Kara" <kara@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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>> I recently read an article on female presidential candidates in the US
and 
>> how they are treated by the media.  All though Hillary Clinton is (I 
>> think) the 60th woman running for presidency, the media treats it as 
>> something new and revolutionary every time.  Someone did a study of the
8 
>> biggest ones (I could look up the name of the study, but getting up is 
>> hard work these days), and found that when a woman ran for presidency
the 
>> media wrote twice as many articles about the male candidates, and while

>> those articles mostly focused on politics, the articles about the women

>> were often about looks and what they wore.
> 
> Did they happen to split this media in to male and female writers ?
> I can't see many male political writers focusing much time on what
> a male or female wears or looks like. What I can see though is
> women writers being employed to write about what the female
> candidates are wearing and what they look like and whether it suites
> them, is in or out of fa****on and who their hair stylist is.

The article I read didn't mention.  But the study has been published in 
the book: Women for President: Media Bias in Eight Campaigns by Erika Falk


Kara