Hillary's Gender Is a Bigger Deal Than We'd Like to Admit

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Hillary's Gender Is a Bigger Deal Than We'd Like to Admit
By Megan Garber, Columbia Journalism Review
Posted on January 9, 2008, Printed on January 10, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/story/73167/

MANCHESTER, NH -- In less than twenty-four hours, it got so much attention that it ceased to need an explanation. ABC News is now calling it, simply, 'The Moment.' In caps.

Yep -- that (slightly) choked-up voice, those (slightly) misty eyes: Hillary Clinton's Shocking Display of Emotion. The 'tears heard round the world,' or whatever you want to call them. Those tears didn't fall -- Clinton didn't cry, as some suggested -- but it hardly matters. CJR's Paul McCleary predicted that the Display would get a lot of play in yesterday's Primary Eve news cycle, and he was right. Within a few hours, we were treated to the following breaking news stories:

"Hillary Tears Up On The Campaign Trail" (Wall Street Journal)

"Clinton Shows Emotion in Final Hours" (Boston Globe)

.......LOTS OF HEADLINES HERE.......


Clinton's Emotions didn't just pervade the news during yesterday's Political High Holy Day; they dominated it. The AP led its article about eleventh-hour squabbles between the candidates -- headlined "McCain, Romney Tussle for Vital NH Win" -- with this: "Her voice quavering, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton struggled Monday to avoid a highly damaging second straight defeat in the Democratic presidential race." And as TIME's Mark Halperin pointed out, each of the three major net