Woman as Sign in Television News

Abstract

Taking as its startingpdnt tbe gendered nahcre of news as a musdim nurrdw, an a d y & sbows tbat wben women do appear as sources and subjects in news, tbey mpvsem 'Wnnen" in a ritualized mle, and f m i n i s t voices are d y maimtmam &dgnees of a seemingly homogeneous female Yiaupdn.The New York Tribune of September 3 headed its report of the meeting of the Working Woman 's Association as 'The Wars of the Women. " Beside that report thus designated stood the report of the Twenty-third Street Union Republican General Committee without a heading, though that might have appropriately been called the "wars of the men.". . . The only way in which I can account for the omission of headings to these reports of the wars of the men is that these captions are written by some masculine wit, who is decidedly partial to jokes on women (25).This excerpt from the nineteenth-century women's rights periodical The Revolution attests that, even in 1869, women in the United States noted and resented the news coverage they received. Contemporary feminists, of course, have been no less immune to such double standards and no less concerned about them.Tuchman (26) and Robinson ( 2 2 ) have both documented stages in early news coverage of the women's movement, from trivialization and ridicule to institutionalization and cooptation. A national study (1 1) found that newspapers gave inadequate coverage to six issues of importance to women-domestic relations, enforcement of Title IX, the legal impact of the Equal Rights

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