Article: Right Wing News
Obama's White House is a 'hostile environment for females that treats women like meat'
By, David Gardner
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2038386/Obamas-White-House-hostile-environment-women-treated-like-meat.html
The issue at hand in this specific article from The Right Wing News deals with how females within the White House have expressed their concern with being left out of important decisions and the overall treatment inside the White House. They have reported feeling basically like a piece of meat, that is rarely taken into account. The way this article frames this issue is in my view in a negative connotation towards president Obama and his colleges such as Rahm Emmanuel and Larry Summers. In a way putting them out in the open that women are not being given the deserved treatment throughout the government offices, making them stand out as sexists. Analyzing this article I realize that a lot can be said just by viewing who wrote this article. This article is written by The Right Wing News, the name does say it all. It is written by conservatives aka those in favor of Republicans. Taking this into account one can see that Obama being a democrat, this article would be framed to negatively affect his image. Just as the article states according to them, Obama is at his lowest rates of approval by the American people. By putting out news like these and framing them as if Obama really did not give women the right treatment, this would favor the Republican party and Republicans. because this would affect Obama image. This article makes sense and is "normal" for those who are right winged, because they will most likely a majority of the time be in favor of anything that makes the democratic party look bad. This narrative to those who are republicans, would make them happy to hear that Obama is doing something that could give them a potential lead in the upcoming presidential elections. The framing of this article is very interesting because it leads those who view this article as normal to have hope that the Republicans will regain office if the democratic party continues to take actions like these. While reading this I personally do not agree with how this article is framed but I can most definitely see how it is framed to satisfy those who are right winged. I realize how much of an affect the frame and most importantly who writes the articles can have on common beliefs and in political aspects.
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ReplyDeleteI find that to be a shame. The issue of women not being present in the White House, or in other sectors of the government at large, has been an issue for decades, preceding Obama's tenure as president. This shows how silly the media can be, and at what measures it is willing to strive for, to promote the character assassination of a man that the men on capital hill, and a significant amount of the American people, did not want to see in the White House in the first place. I do not think framing can be justified, or even understood in this instance because it is not based on fact or a fundamental truth.
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