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Biography’s Unnatural Women

On and off TV, men get better political roles than women.

By Sarah Laskow, Yale University
Wednesday September 6, 2006

The names are already familiar: Clinton, McCain, Condi. Inevitably, the next presidential election will be about celebrity: The media has already begun obsessing about the details of the event with all the ebullience of E! before the Oscars.

Unexpectedly, that media includes the Biography Channel, which seems to have implicitly endorsed Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.). Recently a series of paired profiles aired under the rubric “Then & Now,” and with a heavy hand matched Obama with John F. Kennedy. The all too obvious implication was that Obarema is a sort of inevitable President.

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Posted on September 8, 2006 in News Elsewhere by Anayansi