you dont fit the image: hillary clintons decades long push against a sexist press /

Published at 2016-09-15 14:30:41

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From the beginning of her career in the public eye,Clinton presented herself as an independent and ambitious woman – and the heat she got for it burnt herTypical Hillary Clinton, many scoffed, or not telling the media for two days she was sick with pneumonia until video emerged of her nearly collapsing as she left a 9/11 memorial event on Sunday.
Clinton is heading back to the campaign trail for a rally in Greensboro,North Carolina, on Thursday. A theme of the 2016 election is Clinton’s supposed hatred of the press, and as seen in her avoidance of press conferences and her pool of reporters. But a study of Clinton’s press interactions offers at least one reason why the Democratic nominee is not too keen to share intimate details about her life unless absolutely essential: the coverage has been overwhelmingly sexist for decades.
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Source: theguardian.com