News reports in September on the Senate's vote to override George Bush's veto of the Family Leave Bill focused primarily on one question: Did this help or hurt the president? "Congress Bruises Bush," reported the Minneapolis Star Tribune (9/25/92), concluding that the legislative attempt to mandate unpaid maternity and family emergency leave was a setback for the president. On the other hand, the Atlanta Journal and Constitution (9/25/92) suggested that while the veto might touch off accusations that Bush has "betrayed his family values," the President could use a House failure to override "to show he can still flex his [...]
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Aug
01
1992
Abortion Coverage Leaves Women out of the Picture
As a background graphic for reports on abortion, TV has sometimes used a depiction of a late-term fetus hanging in space, with no connection to a pregnant woman. The "floating fetus" logo is in sync with the media's tendency to push women out of the public's mental picture of the abortion issue. In recent years, national media have heavily covered the issue of abortion. In 1989 and 1990, close to 1500 articles on abortion appeared in major dailies; the weeklies -- Time, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report -- have featured stories on abortion more regularly than any other social [...]
