Palin Faced Sexism from the Media

Season 1 Episode 7

Experts discuss how the media focused on Palin's appearance and often objectified her.

Historian Nichola Gutgold and others discuss how the media focused on Palin's appearance and often objectified her in the way she was filmed and photographed. Not only was her wardrobe discussed by news anchors and reporters, she was often photographed from angles that accentuated parts of her body rather than focused on her face and the things she had to say.

AIR DATE 10/25/16

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From Jesse Jackson’s groundbreaking 1984 and 1988 campaigns to Barry Goldwater’s 1964 campaign that launched of a brand of conservatism that influenced both Ronald Reagan and Hillary Clinton, The Contenders – 16 for ’16 revisits the most influential presidential campaigns of the last 50 years.

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