CNN on Sebelius

A piece of representation of my candidate can be found on the website of CNN. With the headline of “Sebelius’ Term was a Disaster” they clearly made an opinion of my candidate, and not in a very good light. For example the second quote of the entire article is, “Sadly her term as secretary of Health and Human Services was a disaster.”

You can see the full article here: http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/11/opinion/gingrich-sebelius-right-to-resign/

           They attack her by painting a negative image of her while in office. They talk about how American’s should be able to expect that people who enter high public office will see their job as a public duty and will view faithfully serving the public and administering the laws as their solemn obligation. Which in this case CNN is making readers view Sebelius as someone that didn’t take her job seriously.

            Also they take a spin and make her into somewhat of a follower, mentioning that whatever she did was echoing Obama and his decisions and ideas. Mirroring her ideas after his as mentioned in the article. They make the reader’s view her as secretive and conniving. For example they list some examples in the article with this quote: “She made dozens of changes to policy without the authority to do so, from waiving welfare's work requirement to pressuring insurance companies for Obamacare implementation dollars after Congress denied her budget request to delaying the employer mandate--twice--outside the confines of the legislation.”

            Overall this pushes back against the image Kathleen Sebelius is striving for and wants to create for herself. In my blog two I mentioned that Kathleen’s image is very positive. She values “pro-choice” and education most. She has the image of a mother, a caretaker but also a strong leader and woman.  She runs on many political positions but overall wants people to see that she will do whatever needs to be done to keep the best interest for the people. 

  This website of CNN paints a horrifying exact opposite of Kathleen.

            In my opinion I think that this article does shift the image on Kathleen Sebelius for some readers but in this case probably uninformed voters or people that were never for her in the first place. It came out after she was in office. I think you can find a bad review on any politician for any given time-period some where. With CNN you just wouldn’t have to do as much digging.