Your Local News

On NBC's local news tonight there was a surprising amount of political news. For an election night the news only covered maybe 4 minutes of results and issues. The most important of these issues being the rejection of the stem cell bond ballad question in New Jersey. The rest of the news consisted of human interest stories, sports and weather. Although not a major election year it seems that this coverage may be part of the problem with voter turnout. The other ballad questions for New Jersey were not even mentioned.

The news covered a small part of the issues and immediately jumped into the national election. This included Hilary's sinking polls. The local election, although the lead off story, only really mentioned one result from only the 12th district. Others have come in yet they are ignored completely. The news tends to do a poor job of ensuring the public is aware of these issues.

Catfights in Washington

On the Feministing blog this week blogger, Jessica, was very upset by the fact that ABC did a story on Nancy Pelosi. The problem being that the headline stated "Pelosi: Clinton Camp Played Gender Card." To add insult to injury, this was accompanied by a really fun graphic that seems to have really upset Jessica. She really believes that ABC is trying to create a catfight among these two powerful women.

It would seem that she is right. None of the quotations used from an interview with Pelosi indicate that she believed Clinton was playing the gender card. So why would ABC, a reputable news source spin the story this way? That pretty simple...It sells. Whether it is a man or a women surfing the net they are bound to click on that story. This post sort of paints this as a male generated tactic against Hilary and Nancy. This is where I would have to disagree with her. It would seem to me that these two fighting is much more interesting than what they actually believe.