Hillarysworld

Jen the Michigander wrote:

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http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2011/01/26/sundance-report-missrepresentation-explores-treatment-sarah-palin-hillary/

The documentary “Missrepresentation,” directed by Lieutenant Governor of California Gavin Newsom’s wife Jennifer Siebel Newsom, explores how mainstream media undermines American women in influential positions, and the impact this makes on young girls.

It also challenges what it says is the media’s often disparaging portrayal of women. In particular, “Missrepresentation” devotes quite a bit of time to how Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton were covered by mainstream media in the 2008 presidential elections.

“The idea for the film came to me as I watched the 2008 presidential campaign and saw this sexism and double standard that was directed towards Hilary Clinton and Sarah Palin, and some of the wives whose husbands were running for office. It really upset and affected me,” Siebel Newsom told FOX411’s Pop Tarts at the premiere in Park City, Utah over the weekend. “I knew I wanted to have children someday (she now has a two-year-old daughter and is pregnant with a son) and I was worried about raising a daughter in a world that objectifies women to such an extreme.”

“Missrepresentation” criticizes Hollywood for promoting Angelina Jolie and Madonna as exemplars of “empowered women” when they too are most often hypersexualized. Prominent feminist and writer Gloria Steinem, interviewed in the film, told Pop Tarts that the treatment of women has become so ingrained in society that we barely even recognize it.

“It’s so common that it is hard to notice,” she said. “One thing we can always remember is to lead by example. Every time you or I go past a mirror and say ‘I’m too fat’ remember a girl is watching.”

“Missrepresentation” interviews an array of high-profile women including actresses Geena Davis, Rosario Dawson and Jane Fonda, comedian Margaret Cho, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and CBS news anchor Katie Couric.

And while Couric is against women in television being required to look overly sexy, she feels guilty that she may have contributed to the “showing of the legs” shot so prevalent in newscasts today.

“It is something I do worry about, that I started the thing with the legs. I look back at some of my ‘Today’ interviews and my skirt was way too short,” Couric said in the film.

So what is the film’s solution to the media’s problematic portrayal of women?

“It is extremely important that we champion good media and in some cases boycott bad media. Women hold more than 86 percent of America’s purchasing power, and we have to use our power as consumers. We have to write our corporate media leaders to encourage socially responsible business practices,” Siebel Newsom said. “We need to connect the dots for our political leaders so they might advocate for better policies for women and improved media. We have to build community among individual women and girls. It comes down to the fact that we have to be the change we wish to see in the world.”

I'm not sure about this film when it features people like Katie Couric and Jane Fonda, both of whom contributed to the toxic atmosphere of 2008.

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Katie Couric was highly instrumental in the ripping apart of both Hillary and Sarah.  Seems Couric goes by the mantra, "Do as I say, not as I do."