Covering a Speech

 I've watched a TED talk by Megan Kamerick about "Women should represent women in media", and found some parts the were interesting. Firstly, I'd like to pick at the idea of Women representing Women instead of just Men representing them is probably a better way for when it comes to having a voice heard. Some men wouldn't want women being put in the mix of strong topics such as political views, or hard working jobs. Instead they prefer them as a material, or a low standard housewife. Which by my point, is vulgar, and down right discriminative. 

One thing that stood out was the 11-year old girl story, and the way the article represented the 18 year old men were 'drawn' or 'seduced' from the victim. "These boys will have to live with this for the rest of their lives". The victim was only mentioned of the way she dressed and worn makeup in the Times article. The Time's revisits this after public backlash on the presentation they put out, with the victim having her share of her tragic life and her end of the story.

 Another Kamerick mentions about a women journalist having to challenge stereotypic editors when it came to news writing because of how male journalists and editors seem to alter or place victims out of the picture's only to victim blame, or put misleading information. "She worked with an editor at national public radio to try get her story aired nationally. She's not sure if that were to happen if the editor had not been a female." Which in another example earlier in the TED talk, showed an image of Hilary Clinton in a photo with President Barack Obama, during the tracking of Osama Bin Laden that was reprinted on Brooklyn news paper, only to show that Hilary was removed. The papers only response to this was it 'never runs photo's of women'.