When I Google
searched my candidate, the most recent news or written stories were dated back
to April of 2014. The top searches were from media outlets: the Washington
Post, NY times and from CNN network.
All of these
stories are based around the same issue. These were written to talk about
Sebelius resigning from office after troubles over the Health Care Act. Most of
the media outlets that covered her most recently are primarily hard news
outlets. The Washington Post has a liberal audience but it viewed by
conservatives as well. The NY times tends to be more liberal and CNN as well,
but not near as much as FOX news.
From all of
these stories the media is definitely generating the news. From mostly reliable
sources but altered to the way they want to appeal to the people that view the
news. I think that because there are harsh things within these stories about
Sebelius that as a candidate or someone that works for her wouldn’t directly
write. They would want to maintain as much of a positive image as possible even
through these past times of her resignation.
For example in
the Washington post however, there was a few places that showed a silver lining
in Sebelius’ resignation. Quotes directly from Obama, speaking very highly of
her. In this case I think that it altered this news outlets perspective on how
they chose to write about her. Mostly mentioning her good and who would step up
and replace her. Without strong power in this case Obama being in the story I
think they may have took advantage of making the article all about her
weaknesses in office. Political relationships with the media really do alter
what is written. This is from the last couple of chapters we read.
“Under Kathleen’s leadership, the team at HHS
turned the corner,” he said. “And we are proud of her for that. That’s a a
historic accomplishment.” –Obama
In the CNN
article you can see that they write mostly criticizing Sebelius. For example: “Kathleen Sebelius -- who weathered
heavy criticism over the flaw-filled launch of the Obamacare website, then saw
the program through as it topped a major milestone -- is resigning as secretary
of the Department of Health and Human Services, a White House official said
Thursday.” This to me suggests that the media is generating the news in a
way that they think more people will read. Lets be honest as humans we’d rather
read about bad news, conflict, emergency’s and drama. Good news is great but
no-one wants to read an article covering how great Sebelius’ was.
Overall I think
that these media outlets don’t really set up Kathleen for candidacy. They more
so make it so we can see that she was good at the time but is sort of washed
up. I think that if she were to run in the upcoming election she would definitely
want to be covered by outlets such as the Washington post.
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