This article incorporates both media and politics. The media aspect is advertisement and the politic aspect is Ms. McMahon nominee for Senate. Her nominee for Senate raises many questions like woman’s portrayal in the media and how the public might view her last job as executive of the World Wrestling Entertainment. But even though she might be having trouble gaining support her Democratic opponent Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is also having trouble gaining support. So some of the people of Connecticut find that instead of the two candidates actually gaining ground amongst there voters their voters seem to have to “choosing between two flawed candidates.”
Since the moment that Ms. McMahon considered running for Senate McMahon has been advertised through the WWE. Some of the advertisement includes included in the news article is a small video skit between Ms. McMahon and her daughter in a wrestling ring in which her daughter smacks her. And this does not still well with Stacey Smith, age 32 and a manager at a nonprofit organization in Stamford, she finds it hard to take Ms. McMahon seriously. She does not see how Ms. McMahon “‘can [you] claim to be a political figure when you are on stage wrestling with your own daughter?’”… Smith says “‘she turns me off,’” and she also says “‘I [Smith] think she is totally buying the seat.’” Many other female voters have also spoken against Ms. McMahon because of her past executive position in the wrestling industry.
There was even one response in the article that aimed to her past wrestling industry career and it goes something like this: two women in a car one says she likes what Ms. McMahon has to say, her friend asks the women about her feeling about toward McMahon’s wrestling industry, and the first woman says “Not exactly my cup of tea”, the message ends with the friend stating “Look, she tamed the traveling show world of professional wrestling, turned it into a global company, and created 500 jobs here in Connecticut.” The ad proves that her industry has created jobs. But some voters claim that there decision has nothing to do with her affiliation to the WWE. A democrat and a lawyer Donna Candella says WWE is entertainment and that the women who work in the wrestling profession have a choice they are not forced.
The article points out that Ms. McMahon her wrestling advertisement campaign has also tried to “soften her image” with advertisement featuring Governor M. Jodi Rell who tells the public how much of a good person Ms. McMahon is and through an ad entitled “She Has Lived It” which features her “cradling a baby, smiling at schoolchildren with backpacks and speaking with female workers.” I think that Ms. McMahon’s past affiliation with the wrestling industry will be her down fall in the election. I also think that because she was labeled before she got the opportunity to actually prove herself to her constitutions it will make it hard for her to actually gain support has the rest of the midterm election continues. But I think in general woman candidates have a harder time in campaigns because they either come off to the audience to strong or too soft they never seem to be just right.
It's interesting that you cover the McMahon election because I focused my varying project on this. wats weird is that the media never covered the most obvious problem of Mrs.McMahon. the fact that she was never in politics and being a businesswoman does not qualify her for a senate seat. for me that was the main point that if I had the chance I would not have voted for her. the media also refused to focus on the fact on what she did that makes her a good candidate for a senator. nobody ever discussed this it was liek the pple had to do their own research and all that we got was what the opposing candidate told us
ReplyDeleteAs a kid I watched WWE, and the way the woman were shown was an embarassment to their federation. Linda McMahon is linked to that image, and I think if she really wanted to get into politics, she should have left her wrestling image behind. How can anyone take her seriously?
ReplyDeletei think that other women should have supported her because there are not a lot of women involved in politics the majority are men .But Instead they criticized her which i think its wrong because no matter how she used her economic means in the end , if she would have won ,then women would be supporting her because she would represent them.
ReplyDeleteThis is a sticky situation especially in the world of politics. Linda Mcmahon's image will be tough to shake because as we've noticed in the politics, the past comes back to haunt you. Although her career created massive amounts of jobs for women, it will be hard to gain support because of the entertainment aspect of this career and how it degraded women
ReplyDeleteYou have a compelling topic here, but the first thing that I think you need to do is go over the post very carefully and revise for spelling and grammar. There are several places where the meaning of the writing is unclear, and you want to be careful about word usage. Also, you will want to make your main argument clear from the very outset. So if this is a post about McMahon's media image and the portrayal of women in wrestling and the challenges female candidates may face in constructing favorable media images, you need to say that from the very beginning. I don't think the Zoe Baird case fits in very well with this topic. At several points in the post you seem to be alluding to outside information and sources, like these campaign ads or the poll you cite, and you definitely want to make clear where that information is from and provide links so that readers can directly access them.
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