{"id":959,"date":"2008-06-26T18:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-26T23:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=959"},"modified":"2008-06-26T18:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-26T23:02:00","slug":"media-studies-bias-punditry-and-the-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/06\/26\/media-studies-bias-punditry-and-the-press\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Studies: Bias, Punditry, and the Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/SGQS7o317DI\/AAAAAAAABsI\/teqn-GwhOhk\/s1600-h\/images-1.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;float: left;cursor: pointer\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/SGQS7o317DI\/AAAAAAAABsI\/teqn-GwhOhk\/s200\/images-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>For a very thorough post on last week&#8217;s forum on gender, race, class, age, and the media&#8217;s coverage of the 2008 elections, sponsored by the White House Project, the Women&#8217;s Media Center, and the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/marcia-g-yerman\/gender-race-class-age-and_b_109210.html\">Marcia Yemen&#8217;s latest in HuffPo.<\/a>  A report based on the findings and recommendations from that forum&#8211;drafted by yours truly&#8211;is coming soon!  I&#8217;ll post more details when it&#8217;s ready, later in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Carol Jenkins offered a great turn of phrase at that forum when she noted that members of the media have embedded themselves in the war room of this election, turning themselves into &#8220;embedded pundits.&#8221;  Case in point: I&#8217;m sitting here watching MSNBC and on flashes the headline &#8220;Does Obama Need Clinton as Much as the Media Thinks?&#8221;  I&#8217;m screaming back at my tv: <span style=\"font-style: italic\">&#8220;Who the BLEEP cares what the media thinks?&#8221;<\/span>  Talk about simulacrum, I tell ya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a very thorough post on last week&#8217;s forum on gender, race, class, age, and the media&#8217;s coverage of the 2008 elections, sponsored by the White House Project, the Women&#8217;s Media Center, and the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, check out Marcia Yemen&#8217;s latest in HuffPo. A report based on the findings and recommendations from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[129,10745],"class_list":["post-959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-media","tag-political-campaigns"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959","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=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}