The overwhelmingly female press corps on the HRC campaign trail.

[pnwmom]

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/hillary-clinton-women-press-214891

At least 18 national media outlets have female reporters on the Clinton beat, across print, online, radio and TV, according to a POLITICO survey. Some, such as NBC, have as many as three. Local outlets in Iowa and New Hampshire have female reporters on Clinton, as well. No one can remember a political press corps this heavily female.

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"In 2008, I was one of the only women in [Clinton's] traveling press corps," recalled Amy Chozick of The New York Times, ticking off names of the reporters covering Clinton's first presidential race. "Wow, it was pretty male then. So what's changed?"

The change seems to be a combination of more women doing political reporting in general, and many more being drawn to Clinton's potentially historic candidacy. It's made for an unusual atmosphere, with a female candidate sparring with a nearly all-female corps of reporters. It hasn’t brought Clinton more positive coverage, according to those both inside the campaign and outside it. But reporters and press aides alike note that there’s a different vibe nonetheless, punctuated by occasional expressions by the candidate herself of camaraderie for fellow pioneers.


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BuzzFeed’s Ruby Cramer recalled one press gaggle at which Clinton encouraged her to “liberate herself” and ask what she really wanted to ask. Cramer had planned to ask a lighthearted question but explained that she felt obligated to ask about a former Clinton tech staffer, Bryan Pagliano, who took the Fifth Amendment rather than testify before Congress about Clinton’s email practice. (Cramer ended up asking both questions.)

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"One, a younger generation of talented women reporters is coming of age just as Clinton pursues the presidency,” Ryan said. "Two, while I don't think editors are choosing reporters to cover Clinton because of their gender, women are drawn to this story journalistically, given its sweep, history-making potential and the way the Clinton story intersects with the broader discussion about gender, power and culture in this country."

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/hillary-clinton-women-press-214891#ixzz3sjyrRUs6

[hootinholler]

1. At least she has reporters covering her campaign n/t

[pnwmom]

2. "At least"? Like there's something lesser about having women covering her? n/t

[kath]

3. Oh, for gawd's sake, you know that's not what s/he meant.

how 'bout the fact that Bernie's campaign is not getting much attention?

sheesh.

[pnwmom]

4. How do I know? I'm not a mind reader, just a word reader. n/t

[brooklynite]

13. I suppose it's a good excuse for explaining why he's still behind...

...as long as you don't look at all the news stories, SUnday talk show interviews, etc.

[hootinholler]

5. Not at all

The point intended is that other campaigns are receiving much less attention by any reporter.

[pnwmom]

6. I wonder if part of the problem

could be explained here -- that coming from such a small state, he has a very small corps of the press that have been following him till now.

But if he had been receiving Hillary-style coverage, there would have been many more stories about his son who was born to a woman he never married; his women-rape-fantasy essay, etc. Getting a lot of coverage has two sides. The lack of coverage has helped Bernie shape his own narrative more than Hillary ever could.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/vermont-media-bernie-sanders_55afd1bfe4b07af29d5726d3

Typically, the national media turns to large metropolitan daily newspapers as the news sources of record on presidential candidates, such as the Chicago Tribune on President Barack Obama or The Boston Globe on Mitt Romney and John Kerry.

The Burlington Free Press, Vermont's largest newspaper, has a page dedicated to Sanders’ candidacy and an interactive timeline. But the 188-year-old outlet has significantly scaled back its newsroom in the past few years, making it less able to pour resources into a lengthy primary contest.

The Free Press trekked with Sanders on his first post-announcement trip to Iowa, and will cover him in neighboring New Hampshire. But it likely will rely on others in the Gannett newspaper chain, such the Des Moines Register, for campaign trail coverage. Its editors may also tap Gannett's Washington bureau for Sanders stories, such as Monday's front-page report on how online community Reddit has boosted Sanders' candidacy.

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[Hekate]

16. I like your take on Bernie's coverage: that it has allowed him to shape his own narrative...

...more than Hillary ever could. And that greater press coverage is (ha) a two edged sword.

[pnwmom]

18. Some will say this is playing the "gender card"

but I can't imagine a serious female Presidential candidate who had been twice married and had a baby born out of wedlock.

And I don't think President Obama could have been nominated, much less elected, with that background either.

[Hekate]

19. Eeeeeeeyow. The RW would've called him a "baby daddy" up one side an down the other.

Neither one of them does Jebus talk very well, they're too cerebral and private for that -- and lots of Jebus talk is how the RW rehabilitates its fallen politicians. I mean, Vitter for gods' sake. And Dubya.

But I don't think a woman could really get past that....

[pnwmom]

20. Actually,

HRC, who is a Methodist, can speak well to people of faith -- in a faith setting. I saw a video of her speaking to people in an African American church in South Carolina (after the shootings) and she sounded as comfortable with religious language as the nuns in my high school.

But she doesn't talk like that during campaign appearances.

[Hekate]

21. I know what you mean. They are both believers, and we've seen PBO really preach a good sermon...

....at the funeral at Mother Emmanuel. I appreciate that trait in both HRC and PBO. They live their faith.

But there is something smarmy to me about the RW approach, the kind of thing where someone has done irreparable harm, but since they got right with Jesus, now everything is A-OK, and they feel compelled to talk about it.

[tularetom]

7. How about the overwhelmingly absent press corps on the Sanders campaign trail?

Instead of whining about female reporters, Clinton ought to be glad she has any coverage at all.

Her opponent is drawing huge crowds and getting ignored by the news media.

[pnwmom]

8. Wow. That's a nasty, sexist post. Hillary isn't "whining about female reporters."

She's clearly proud of them, and so am I, for the record.

And of course she has extensive coverage. Her poll numbers have had her at the top ever since she announced her candidacy.

[tularetom]

9. Then what's the point of the article?

If she didn't have any female reporters, she'd be whining about how the male reporters were treating her unfairly.

[pnwmom]

10. Use your reading skills, if you have them.

The point is the world has changed, and the press corps along with them. The press corps is no longer a boys' club. Just between 2008 and today, the composition of the group traveling with Hillary has changed considerably.

[tularetom]

11. Sticks and stones posted online will not break my bones

..but that doesn't mean I understand why the vitriol directed at me for asking a simple question.

Is Clinton, boasting about being covered by female reporters, is she feeling belittled because few males are involved, or is she sniveling in typical Clintonian fashion about the female reporters are just as biased as the males?

[pnwmom]

12. First you claim she's whining about being covered by female reporters, now you claim

she's bragging.

She's doing neither one -- she didn't write this article -- but I'm sure she's proud and happy to see more young women reach their goals.

You are the one doing any sniveling around here, and exuding vitriol.

[Lilith Rising]

29. "Whining", "sniveling", "boasting"

are all loaded words.

You are clearly NOT just asking some innocent question - you are looking for a reaction.

[Rose Siding]

14. In between biting the heads off kittens?

Geeze, you've got it bad.

[oasis]

15. There's an ongoing epidemic of the MAAC syndrome at DU.

Must Attack Anything Clinton.

[Hekate]

17. This is very cool to know! It would be such a kick to be a young woman on that assignment.nt

[Cha]

22. Female Power.. It's here! From Rosie to Hillary!

Mahalo pnwmom~

[seabeyond]

24. Ya...

[Cha]

26. Hey Aloha Sea~

Padma Lakshmi
✔ ‎@PadmaLakshmi
Oh yes, it will finally happen. #Hillary2016
4:03 AM - 13 Apr 2015
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[seabeyond]

28. I love the picture, I do. Aloha. Nt.

[lumberjack_jeff]

23. "Felt obligated"

Such a crisis of conscience; "should I ask the candidate a tough question?"

"felt obligated"? It should be more than a feeling ms reporter - it should be a condition of employment.

The flipside is that the press is sending women because men can't ask these tough questions and be portrayed as bullies by her campaign.

[pnwmom]

25. In 2008 the group was dominated by men, so that goes against your theory

that "the press is sending women because men can't ask tough questions" or they'll "be portrayed as bullies." The media wasn't intimidated by her then or now.

[DonCoquixote]

27. this does not surprise me

After all, it makes sense to have women ask her questions, both for reasons that might support Hillary, but also because if there is any hard question, the last thing the press wants to do is look like they sicked big bully brute on Hillary. It would make the network look like they are sexist scum, and the stink would last for years.