“Been a long time coming, to be the last to get voting rights, to be those who waited and waited for our turn,” Ms. Brazile said. “This is not about asking anyone to leave the room. Just scoot over and let women also share in the leadership of this country.”
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, a communications professor at the University of Pennsylvania, said that President Trump, an unusually dominant figure in the news for the last four years, complicated the coverage on Saturday.
“Trump is making it more difficult in the moment to celebrate her accomplishment, because he is draining part of the attention available in the news narrative,” Ms. Jamieson said. “But it’s not being ignored.”
Nancy Cordes, the congressional correspondent at CBS, provided a history lesson, noting that Ms. Ferraro, as Walter Mondale’s running mate in 1984, was asked whether she was “tough enough” for the job of vice president and if “the Soviets might try to take advantage of the White House” because of her gender, Ms. Cordes said.
“If you think about the questions Kamala Harris got this time around, she got tough questions, but certainly nothing about her fitness to be in office because she is a woman,” Ms. Cordes said. “So that in itself is progress.”
The history-making rise of a daughter of Indian and Jamaican immigrants was also the focus of articles published online on Saturday by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times.
A news alert from The Journal noted that Ms. Harris would be “the highest-ranking woman ever in the line of presidential succession.” The Atlantic ran a story with a simple headline: “She Did It.” The feminist website Jezebel led its home page with “Good Morning to Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris, and Kamala Harris Only,” placing its article on Mr. Biden second. On The 19th, a nonprofit gender and politics news site, Ms. Harris was center stage.
Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/07/business/media/kamala-harris-coverage.html
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