While the response did not
While the response did not directly address all potential aspects of the question, I thought the response implied that some journalists have been doing an excellent job, whether or not all journalists in "the beltway" have. I listen to NPR and PBS regularly and often hear much better reporting in those contexts than anywhere else, whether or not those news items make the more mainstream headlines. That is, if most journalists have not been constantly pushing, some have--often to the detriment of their status and certainly to the detriment of their "patriotic" reputations. Given the breadth of the question and the examples she used in her response, to suggest that she and Dr. Rice go "shoe shopping" is an extremely sexist and unfair comment. If one does not think a respondent answered a questions clearly, fair enough, but to add gendered bias is inappropriate; had someone posting made a (blatantly) racially derogatory comment, likely the post would have been flagged. Yet casting 2 influential, even powerful, African American women as the "ladies who lunch" and who might only shoe shop when they get together (and that the journalist might therefore tow the "party line") is acceptable?
