Our apologies for the delay between posts, but we were changing jobs.
Yesterday pictures of a rapidly improving Gabrielle Giffords graced front pages across the country. This prompted two questions in our mind: 1) Would her recovery get the same attention if she was a man? 2) Would it get the same attention if she was a Republican woman?
Answer 1) No. It would be ignored across the board. All media outlets would pay less attention and part of this is due to public demand: People like a damsel in distress story.
Answer 2) Kind of. Fox and other sympathetic outlets would cover the story the same way if she was a Republican. But there is no way that mere recovery pictures, like we saw yesterday, would be on the cover of the New York Times or Washington Post.
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