Selling Supreme Court nominees: The case of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Critical sociology, vol. 23, no. 3, 1997, pp. 3–32
Abstract
A content analysis of mainstream media coverage of Ruth Bader Ginsburg during her 1993 nomination to the US Supreme Court reveals a highly sympathetic & almost totally uncritical portrayal. Further analysis of the Ginsburg coverage in liberal, conservative, & specialty publications & of Ginsburg’s record as an appellate court judge brings to light a very different Ginsburg, whose record is good on feminist concerns, yet middling to poor on other progressive issues. Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky’s (1988) propaganda model of the media & the politics of the Bill Clinton administration are employed to interpret the radical disjuncture created by the mainstream media’s disingenuous treatment of Ginsburg’s legal career. 1 Table, 1 Appendix, 10 References. Adapted from the source document.
