{"id":934,"date":"2008-06-17T12:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T17:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=934"},"modified":"2008-06-17T12:07:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-17T17:07:00","slug":"live-blogging-from-soundbites-to-solutions-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/06\/17\/live-blogging-from-soundbites-to-solutions-3\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVE BLOGGING: From Soundbites to Solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Soundbites to Solutions: Bias, Punditry, and the Press in the 2008 Elections, jointly sponsored by the WMC, The White House Project, and the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education<\/span><\/p>\n

Panel II – How the Media Influence and Reflect Political Realities, moderated by Geneva Overholser, Director of the School of Journalism at the U of Southern California<\/p>\n

Overheard, here at the Paley Center:<\/p>\n

William Douglas, White House Correspondent:<\/span> \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I look at this campaign season so far and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m both encouraged and discouraged about how we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve covered it. It’s because we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve had two such historic candidates. Speaking from the mainstream print journalism world, I think we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve done ok. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve actually written about issues that we haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t had the opportunity to look at durnig previous campaigns, in large part because the candidates have been traditional candidates. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve looked at race and gender somewhat differently than we have in the past, because we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve had to.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Juan Gonzalez, Columnist, New York Daily News: <\/span>“I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been extremely disappointed by the shallowness of the approach to all these issues. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been seen as conflicts between campaigns, between individuals. There’s been far less focus on the institutional, and on what these two candidates are actually going to do….In the foreign policy arena, for instance, the media has failed to differentiate between the candidates\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 different attitudes toward American empire. Do the candidates urge the American people to have a smarter empire, or to end this domination over people of the world? I look forward to seeing how we improve our coverage during the general election.”<\/p>\n

Dr. Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Director, Annenberg Public Policy Center:<\/span> “‘It was a charming speech. There was no stridency to it. Maybe she has a new speech writer.’ We need some consciousness raising here if a commentator feels it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ok to deliver those three sentences!”<\/p>\n

Chrisitane Anamapour, Chief International Correspondent, CNN<\/span>: “To think that in this country, this supposed beacon of democracy, you can be sexist in reporting without accountability, is astonishing to me. Even in places like Iran, where there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an Islamic fundamentalist revolution, the number of times people have said to me \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcWell, we have more women in our Parliament than you in America have in your Senate.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 And in Europe, people say to me the same. Women have been breaking those barriers outside the US for a long, long time in some countries that you in the US have believed to be benighted and backward….”<\/p>\n

Pamela Newkirk, Associate Professor of Journalism, New York University: <\/span>“When I left the daily media 15 years ago, I wrote about the impact African Americans have had on mainstream American media. I found that race matters, and what we learned on this campaign is that gender matters for sure, but let us not forget that race still matters. With the nomination of Barack Obama, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a perception out there that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve overcome race. But both of these areas still have a long way to go. Bill O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Reilly called for a lynching party for Michelle Obama, but last I checked, he still has a show.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Soundbites to Solutions: Bias, Punditry, and the Press in the 2008 Elections, jointly sponsored by the WMC, The White House Project, and the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education Panel II – How the Media Influence and Reflect Political Realities, moderated by Geneva Overholser, Director of the School of Journalism at the U of Southern […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21106],"tags":[129,10745],"class_list":["post-934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liveblogging","tag-media","tag-political-campaigns"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}