Hillary Clinton as Political Candidate

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shawn J. Parry-Giles
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Television News ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Hillary Clinton ◽  
News Frames ◽  
News Broadcasts ◽  
Elective Office ◽  
Political Experience ◽  
Political Candidate ◽  
The Press

This chapter features the extensive television news coverage of Hillary Clinton as a candidate for the U.S. Senate. In many ways, the news broadcasts reflected the memory frames that circulated throughout her time as first lady, from her image as a political lightning rod who suffered from personality problems to that of a victimized wife. Questions surrounding her political authenticity were central to the news frames from the early murmurs of a possible Clinton Senate run. Clinton was correspondingly depicted as an inauthentic political candidate because of her questionable motives for office, her lack of geographical ties to the state of New York, her lack of political experience, and her shifting views on contentious political topics. These inauthenticity judgments suggested to the press and Clinton's Republican opponents that she lacked an overall fitness and preparedness for elective office.

Hillary Clinton as Campaign Surrogate

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shawn J. Parry-Giles
Keyword(s):  
News Coverage ◽  
Presidential Campaign ◽  
Hillary Clinton ◽  
News Frames ◽  
First Lady ◽  
Presidential Campaigning

This chapter represents the first installment of Hillary Clinton's news biography and examines the news coverage of Clinton during the 1992 presidential campaign and her entrance onto the national stage of politics. It recounts the baseline news frames that laid the foundation for judgments of Clinton's authenticity against which future frames would converge and diverge. The chapter also describes her most formative media moments during this period, which linguistically and visually acted as stock frames that authenticated Clinton as a feminist and inauthenticated her as a woman of tradition. Her political image was thus framed as a political intruder violating the protocol of presidential campaigning; an anomalous candidate's wife rejecting the trappings of home and domesticity in favor of feminist principles; and a political lightning rod who exuded personality problems that promised to disrupt her husband's presidential bid and undermine the traditions of first lady.

The Changing Norms of Gendered News Coverage: Hillary Clinton in the New York Times, 1969–2016

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (03) ◽  
pp. 599-621 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Zulli
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Longitudinal Analysis ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Double Bind ◽  
Hillary Clinton ◽  
Female Politicians ◽  
Gender Traits

Research on female politicians suggests that women face a double bind. Female politicians must embrace their femininity but not be too feminine, and they must demonstrate masculinity without deviating from gender norms. Hillary Clinton has often struggled with this balance, which has resulted in conflicting and inconsistent portrayals of her in the news. To examine the extent of this coverage, this study provides a longitudinal analysis of Clinton's personal and professional media coverage in the New York Times. A content analysis of news coverage of Clinton from 1969 to 2016 shows that she has largely not been bound to gender labels, gender traits, or mentions of physical appearance. In addition, Clinton was not overly discussed as a novelty or norm challenger. These findings contradict previous literature, demonstrating a potential trend away from using gender as a descriptor for or limitation to female politicians.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shawn J. Parry-Giles
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Television News ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Hillary Clinton ◽  
Gendered Spaces ◽  
Gendered Politics ◽  
Visual Framing ◽  
American Nation

This introductory chapter discusses the major themes that have informed the news coverage of Hillary Clinton since the start of her public life. In particular, emphasis is placed on news media and its preoccupation with “authenticity”—an issue that has often permeated media coverage of Clinton. This chapter briefly sets out the evolutionary news narratives and visual framing devices used to cover one very public political woman over the span of sixteen years. Furthermore, it considers the historical and gendered spaces of the American nation-state, wherein this coverage is situated. As the chapter shows, scholarship on nationalism and its connection to theories of character and authenticity, gendered politics, and news function as the primary critical lenses used to examine the television news coverage of Hillary Clinton.

When Celebrity and Political Journalism Collide: Reporting Standards, Entertainment, and the Conundrum of Covering Donald Trump’s 2016 Campaign

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 128-143
Author(s):  
Amber E. Boydstun ◽  
Regina G. Lawrence
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Quantitative Evidence ◽  
Political Experience ◽  
Political Journalism ◽  
The Press ◽  
Celebrity Politics ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One ◽  
Entertainment Value

While the rise of celebrities-turned-politicians has been well documented and theorized, how their bids for office are treated by the establishment press has been less closely examined. Research on celebrity politics on the one hand, and on journalism standards on the other, have rarely been brought into conversation with one another. Here, we draw from both literatures to explore how the press covered Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. Prior research on political journalism would likely have predicted that Trump, with his lack of conventional political experience and a career in reality TV, would have been treated to derisive, dismissive press coverage, which we refer to as “clown” coverage. But Trump’s fame and wealth, and the high entertainment value of his campaign, would also lead the media to cover him heavily. We argue that the collision of entertainment-infused politics with traditional journalism practices created a profound dilemma for the press’s ability to cover the campaign coherently, and that the press responded to this dilemma by giving Trump as much clown-like coverage as serious coverage, throughout not just the primary but also the general election. We support our argument through qualitative evidence from interviews with journalists and other political insiders, and quantitative evidence from a content analysis of New York Times and Washington Post coverage of Trump at key points throughout the campaign.

scholarly journals Deliberative Qualities of Generic News Frames: Assessing the Democratic Value of Strategic Game and Contestation Framing in Election Campaign Coverage

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eike Mark Rinke ◽  
Hartmut Wessler ◽  
Carina Weinmann ◽  
Charlotte Löb
Keyword(s):  
Political Communication ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Television News ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Standard Operating Procedure ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
Strategic Game ◽  
News Frames ◽  
Democratic Deliberation ◽  
Democratic Life

News frames are patterns of news construction journalists rely on to present information to their audiences. While much of the research on news frames has focused on their identification and effects, less work has investigated the specific contributions these different frames make to democratic life. Value judgments about distinct news frames are often not generated in a systematic fashion, not grounded in democratic theory, and/or not supported by empirical evidence. In this article, we address these problems by arguing for and extending normative assessment as a standard operating procedure to determine the democratic value of political communication phenomena. We demonstrate the usefulness of normative assessment by showing how two important generic news frames (politics as a strategic game and as a substantive contestation) contribute to a deliberative public discourse prior to a general election. Using data on television news coverage of the German federal election campaign in 2009, we investigate how these frames are related to the inclusiveness and civility of public discourse and the extent to which it features exchanges of substantive reasons for political positions. Results show that mediated democratic deliberation suffers consistently from strategic game framing, while contestation frames make ambivalent contributions. Implications for political communication scholarship as well as journalistic practice are discussed.

scholarly journals Comparative Frame Analysis of ‘War on Terror’: Content Analysis of USA and Pakistan’s Press

sjesr ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 238-245
Author(s):  
Shazia Hashmat ◽  
Dr. Bakht Rawan
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
War On Terror ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Attribution Of Responsibility ◽  
News Frames ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Press ◽  
Negative Tone

This study explores the role of leading newspapers of both America and Pakistan on the war-on-terror (WoT). The comparative framing analysis of the WoT in the selected newspapers Dawn (Pakistan) and The New York Times (USA) was carried out. Content analysis in which Categorization Scheme was used with predefined categories that were made on the basis of Framing theory. Five different news frames are deduced by Semetko and Valkenburg (2000) i.e. attribution of responsibility, human interest, conflict, morality, and economics were looked at in the selected newspapers. The coverage and framing of USA’s press related to the war on terror were dominated by regional foreign politics especially the framing of Pakistan and its role in the war on terror. The mean length of the news stories in The New York Times (USA) was significantly more than Dawn. The New York Times (USA) carried a more negative tone than Dawn (Pakistan). Frames used in Dawn (Pakistan) and The New York Times (USA) did not have a statistically significant difference. The conflict frame was used more than any other frame in the coverage of WoT in both the newspapers. This study revealed that the coverage trend of media reporting on WoT in the press of both Pakistan and USA. Also how frames in the press used are subjective to the internal politics of country in order to receive a sense of legitimacy and support.

Afghanistan in Americans’ Imagination

2019 ◽  
pp. 28-50
Author(s):  
Katherine A. Brown
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
News Media ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Washington Post ◽  
White House ◽  
Print News ◽  
The Press ◽  
News Agencies ◽  
The U.S

This chapter examines how the American public was reintroduced to Afghanistan after the events of 9/11 and how the U.S. broadcast and print media began to frame this “good war” in October 2001. It analyzes the American news media’s relationship with Afghanistan beginning in the 1980s and the reality it has constructed since 2001 about Afghanistan and the conflict. It also reviews U.S. officials’ perceptions about their responsibilities to the press. During these 15 years, the news coverage, especially that of the broadcast news media, was tightly indexed to the degree of White House attention to the war and the intensity of conflict for American soldiers. Yet some American print news agencies, especially the Associated Press, New York Times, and Washington Post, have stayed committed to covering Afghanistan despite decreased American presidential attention.

Hillary Clinton in the News

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shawn J. Parry-Giles
Keyword(s):  
Electoral Politics ◽  
The Political ◽  
Hillary Clinton ◽  
Political Arena ◽  
News Frames ◽  
Cable News ◽  
Political Candidate ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Gender Boundaries ◽  
News Programs

The charge of inauthenticity has trailed Hillary Clinton from the moment she entered the national spotlight and stood in front of television cameras. This book shows how the U.S. media created their own news frames of Clinton's political authenticity and image-making, from her participation in Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign through her own 2008 presidential bid. Using theories of nationalism, feminism, and authenticity, the book tracks the evolving ways the major networks and cable news programs framed Clinton's image as she assumed roles ranging from surrogate campaigner, legislative advocate, and financial investor to international emissary, scorned wife, and political candidate. This study magnifies how the coverage that preceded Clinton's entry into electoral politics was grounded in her earliest presence in the national spotlight, and in long-standing nationalistic beliefs about the boundaries of authentic womanhood and first lady comportment. Once Clinton dared to cross those gender boundaries and vie for office in her own right, the news exuded a rhetoric of sexual violence. These portrayals served as a warning to other women who dared to enter the political arena and violate the protocols of authentic womanhood.

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