Remarks by the President to the White House Press Corps, 20 August 2012 (Syrian “Red Line”)

2021 ◽  
pp. 163-164
Author(s):  
Bram Boxhoorn ◽  
Giles Scott-Smith
Keyword(s):  
White House ◽  
Press Corps ◽  
Red Line

Questioning the president: Examining gender in the White House press corps

Journalism ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 519-535 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsey Meeks
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Foreign Trade ◽  
Potential Influence ◽  
President Obama ◽  
Women Journalists ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
White House ◽  
Press Corps ◽  
Before And After

In 2014, President Barack Obama made history by only calling upon women journalists during a domestic news conference with the White House press corps. To capitalize on and examine this critical first in journalism, this study analyzed the potential influence of a journalist’s gender in White House press corps news conferences with President Obama a year before and a year after the all-female conference. The content analysis examined what political issues journalists emphasized in presidential news conferences and whether these issue emphases varied (a) by journalists’ gender and (b) before and after the all-female conference. Results revealed that, to some extent, men and women emphasized different issues. Furthermore, there were marked shifts after the all-female conference. First, women were called upon more often. Second, women emphasized several issues more than men. In particular, women became predominant on questions dealing with so-called ‘masculine’ or ‘hard news’ issues, for example, macroeconomics and foreign trade. This work suggests that gender, in all of its permutations – be it the journalist’s gender, the gendering of issues, or the gendering of occupational spaces – matters and may affect journalists’ lines of questioning.

Breaking Secrets in Wartime

The Columnist ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 59-88
Author(s):  
Donald A. Ritchie
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
First Amendment ◽  
State Department ◽  
World War ◽  
White House ◽  
Press Corps ◽  
Radio Programs

In a 1944 poll, the Washington press corps rated Drew Pearson as the columnist who exerted the greatest influence over national opinion but ranked him lower for reliability and fairness. A better measure of his influence was the anguish that his columns caused inside the White House, State Department, Pentagon, and even the British cabinet. During World War II, the FBI tapped his phones, naval intelligence officers tailed him, and foreign operatives spied on him. His publication of British secrets would have led to his prosecution under the UK’s Official Secrets Act, but the First Amendment protected him in United States. Pearson took sole control over the column after Robert Allen joined the army. The column and his weekly radio programs gave him immense influence, but he still had to struggle with the government’s wartime censorship of the news.

Gender matters in questioning presidents

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-143
Author(s):  
Steven E. Clayman ◽  
John Heritage ◽  
Amelia M. J. Hill
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Sampling Period ◽  
Domestic Policy ◽  
Private Sphere ◽  
Women Journalists ◽  
White House ◽  
Gender Balance ◽  
Press Corps

Abstract This paper traces the increasing prominence of women in the White House press corps over the latter half of the 20th century, and considers how this trend toward greater gender balance has impacted the questioning of presidents. Modest gender differences are documented in the topical content of questions, with women journalists slightly favoring domestic policy and private-sphere topics relative to men. More substantial differences are documented in aggressiveness, with women journalists asking more adversarial questions, and more assertive questions at least in the earlier years of the sampling period. The topical content differences are broadly aligned with traditional conceptions of gender, but the stronger differences in aggressiveness run contrary to such conceptions.

Red Jacket Revisited: The Case that Unraveled John J. Parker's Supreme Court Appointment

1987 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Graham Fish
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
The United States ◽  
Secondary Importance ◽  
White House ◽  
Court Of Appeals ◽  
Press Corps ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Federal Jurisdiction ◽  
United Mine Workers

Before a gathering of the White House Press corps on March 21, 1930, President Herbert Hoover announced his nomination for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court to fill a vacancy unexpectedly created by the death of Edward T. Sanford. His nominee was forty-four year old native North Carolinian John J. Parker, a member since 1925 of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Within days of the nomination organized labor and its allies in Congress and the press unleashed withering attacks on a single judicial opinion authored by Parker. In the process, the priority of issues raised in that case was dramatically inverted. The foremost issue, federal jurisdiction, became subordinated to the scope of an injunctive decree, an issue of secondary importance. Thus, the nominee's three year old opinion in International Union, United Mine Workers of America v. Red Jacket Consolidated Coal and Coke Company became the catalyst for transforming him from relative obscurity into a symbol of anti-labor conservatism.

Trump positions could trigger NAFTA talks breakdown

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
National Interests ◽  
Content Type ◽  
White House ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Face ◽  
American Economy ◽  
Red Line

Significance Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland presented on August 14 a number of conditions for the talks. The negotiation objectives of President Donald Trump's administration tread onto several red-line issues for the Canadian and Mexican governments, which will seek vigorously to defend their respective national interests in the face of US protectionism. At stake is the integrated North American economy that has existed since 1993, with significant continental economic repercussions to be expected should negotiations go sour. Impacts The US political fixation on trade deficits will lead to economically sub-par NAFTA positions. Republican legislators and governors will seek to rein in disruptive positions by the White House ahead of 2018. Staffing cuts will diminish US negotiating capacity compared to their Canadian and Mexican counterparts.

Milton's army: The white house press corps

1981 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Baruch Grossman ◽  
Martha Joynt Kumar
Keyword(s):  
White House ◽  
Press Corps

Structuring, Motions and Shapes of Corona Emission Line Profiles

1994 ◽  
Vol 144 ◽  
pp. 421-426
Author(s):  
N. F. Tyagun
Keyword(s):  
Emission Line ◽  
Filling Factor ◽  
Direct Relationship ◽  
Coronal Plasma ◽  
Line Of Sight ◽  
Line Profiles ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Yellow Line ◽  
Red Line

AbstractThe interrelationship of half-widths and intensities for the red, green and yellow lines is considered. This is a direct relationship for the green and yellow line and an inverse one for the red line. The difference in the relationships of half-widths and intensities for different lines appears to be due to substantially dissimilar structuring and to a set of line-of-sight motions in ”hot“ and ”cold“ corona regions.When diagnosing the coronal plasma, one cannot neglect the filling factor - each line has such a factor of its own.

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