Do you agree with Campbell Brown or not? Why?
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- Jill Falk
- This blog supports Assistant Professor Jill Falk's undergraduate courses in the School of Communications at Lindenwood University in St. Charles, MO. For the 2008-2009 school year, she teaches the following courses: COM 130 Survey of Professional Media, COM 327 Media Literacy, COM 304 Broadcast Newswriting, COM 386 Special Topics: Advanced TV Talent, COM 390 TV Reporting.
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Gosh, Campbell is all alone in her rant here...no students to provide her or me with feedback.
Do you agree with her version of the term "sexism"?
C'mon, this video is only a minute and a half long...
I do agree. I think that we need to see what Palin really knows because from her previous speeches, she doent seem to know to much so let her talk as everyone else does.
I agree with the premise of Brown's statements, but I would venture to say that in the case of Sarah Palin, the McCain camp is not being chauvinistic as much as defensive. I believe that McCain and his senior advisors are appropriately sensitive to common public sentiment regarding Palin—generally that she lacks coherence, experience, and even intelligence—and are attempting to divert any further inflammation of that notion by directly impeding the mass reproduction of Palin’s public speaking blunders. However, even though this is not sexism, it still adheres to Brown’s idea that excluding Palin from media attention might be personally offensive. So in response to the question, I do not agree that this is an example of sexism. However, if the McCain organization continues to shelter Palin from media attention, the public will catch on and McCain’s efforts will only have served to highlight Palin’s deficiencies.
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