How females are covered in the news

At the hight of the political campaign in April of 2004, over a million women gathered for the March for Women's Lives in Washington D.C.

"Together, this multi-generational crowd of international human rights lawyers, ob-gyn students, queer activists, anti-war protestors, environmentalists, sexual assault survivors, independent mediamakers and Radical Cheerleading bootyshakers comprised the largest single political demonstration in DC history.

Yet faced with a women’s rights demo bigger than any 1960s civil rights or anti-war march, American media responded with a whimper, undercounting the marchers’ numbers (citing ‘thousands’ or ‘hundreds of thousands’ instead of more than a million) and underestimating the protesters’ political significance, keeping the story in the news cycle typically for just one day... if that.

Time magazine, which infamously declared feminism ‘dead’ in a 1998 cover story, ignored the march entirely. Outlets like Newsday, Fox News and CNN played bait-and-switch, covering the march as an excuse to highlight a few hundred anti-abortion counter-protesters, as if their minute presence was equal in size and newsworthiness."

This article explains how the feminist movement is covered in the media, and how it is often trivialized and marginalized.

The rest of the article can be found here

Pozner, J. (2001). Reclaiming the Media for a Progressive Feminist Future. World Association for Christian Communication.