Discussion: Major Newspapers Catch Flack For Not Featuring Hillary Clinton On Front Pages

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I gave up on the Times when they cheerled for Dumbya and the war.

Liberal media, my ass.

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This is very good stuff. We are fighting back, and we will give no quarter.

The press will be held accountable.

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Mommy: “They’re for lining the drawers in your dorm room, sweetie.”

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Not surprised since most major newspapers are owned by older white rich man.

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And in coastal towns, fishwrap.

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Actually, I’m female.

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Ha yes! And I said the same exact thing a few comments up! Imagine a great public figure dies, and the front page obituary is missing a picture… and you ask the Times, “how come?” and they say, “Oh, he’s DEAD! We was too late for a picture!”

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Sometimes you really have to believe it will never change.

Through the fairly recent years:

"Clinton agreed to be on the Walmart Board to push gender equality and environmental issues. She left in 1992.

“Fellow board members and company executives, who have not spoken publicly about her role at Wal-Mart, say Mrs. Clinton used her position to champion personal causes, like the need for more women in management and a comprehensive environmental program, despite being Wal-Mart’s only female director, the youngest and arguably the least experienced in business.”

Then in 1995, A Wal-Mart store pulled a popular T-shirt proclaiming “Someday a woman will be president” off its shelves, saying it was offensive to some shoppers. They also said it went against their “family values”

Somebody should remind them about that

Seems that putting a large pic to illustrate the subject of the article is also against some newspapers’ family values.

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She’ll be on the front page Friday, but not under the banner of “first woman nominated” And yes, there is no shortage of pictures of Hillary Clinton around the universe. This excuse doesn’t pass muster.

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Not you! rock golf

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Now that’s funny!

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Would be nice for the article to have a paragraph about whether Trump was treated the same last week. And whether other presidential candidates also had no picture and/or whether they attended the night they were nominated. There’s still time to “update…”

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Meh. This is not were we need to be focusing. Go sign-up to the campaign. Find a local campaign office to volunteer… donate… phone bank… focus.

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Oh yeah…and I loved the CNN ‘factchecker’ this morning. Everything a woman said was ‘TRUE but misleading’. Everything a man said was rated ‘True’ even if the write up before the rating showed shades of grey. Amazing.

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Oh c’mon. They have TRUMP! on every front page, every headline EVERY SINGLE DAY, relevant or not.

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The L.A.Times has Bill on the front page of its Election 2016 section, Hillary is not on the front page either.

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Agree that’s my point. :slight_smile:

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It appears to be a misspelling of another word with another meaning, that has gained acceptance both for it’s current meaning and spelling.

The word flack was first used as a noun meaning “publicity agent” during the late 1930s. According to one rumor, the word was coined in tribute to a well-known movie publicist of the time, Gene Flack. Another rumor holds that flack derives from a similar-sounding Yiddish word for someone who talks about someone else’s affairs. The editors of Merriam-Webster dictionaries remain skeptical about these claims and have listed the etymology of flack as “unknown.” We can say with confidence, however, that the verb form of the word appeared in Maclean’s in 1963. You may also be familiar with another “flack” - a noun meaning “criticism” or “opposition.” This unrelated homograph stems from a misspelling of “flak,” a German acronym and English word for antiaircraft guns.

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The t-shirt was offensive to people!!! Family values? All I can do is shake my head and wonder what is wrong with people.

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Never fails to amaze me how dull Occam’s Razor becomes in the hand of a white male when the issue to be tested is whether a thing is the result of bias–whether subconscious or conscious–against women or minorities.

I don’t bring that observation to the discussion down from a high place, but, rather I have carried it on my back from the low place I’ve been trying to climb out of for years. I still find myself ambushed by it and, shamefully, more often on issues of gender than of race.

Hillary’s appearance last night was a surprise. It didn’t fail to get in because it came too late, because they never knew it was coming in the first place. Instead, there was a choice, never identified as a choice, to go with pictures of Bill who they knew would be speaking, rather than a stock photo, or one taken outside the convention in the last day or so, to acknowledge that she just made history.

Yeah, maybe if they’d known it was coming, and it had come before they put the edition to bed, they would have perceived the existence of a choice between a shot of Bill from the convention or a shot of Hillary. But the problem here is that either there was no recognition of the the existence of a choice between a shot of Bill at the convention and one of Hillary outside the convention, or else they did perceive it and went with the shot of Bill, despite the fact that nominating a woman was hugely historic.

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