What’s A Woman’s Worth In The U.S., For Hilary Clinton?

The U.S. Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is very close to changing the landscape of American politics and governance which has before now, been a “game” left for the men. She just made history as the first woman to be nominated by a major party, as a front-runner in a United States presidential election.

However, it’s clear that no matter how strong the call for gender equality in the country gets, the media holds the power to make it a reality.

A look at the tabloids around America today shows that most newspapers ran the groundbreaking news on their front pages, according to reports.

Other newspapers with gynophobia or sexism–whatever, chose to accompany the trendsetting victory with a photo of her husband, ignoring the “tigress”.

Is that another form of politics? Or was it just a never-ending hate on women who’re hell-bent on making it to the top in American politics?

“Only 19 of the 50 leading US newspapers ran a photo of Hillary Clinton, while the rest chose to feature pictures of former president Bill Clinton, her former Democratic rival Bernie Sanders, DNC crowd shots, or they didn’t run the story at all,” the BBC reports.

The Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post, the Seattle Times, the Washington Times and the Houston Chronicle were just some of the newspapers who omitted a photo of Hillary Clinton from their front pages, SBC added.

Responses Via SBC:

Eric Haywood @EricHaywood

YOU HAD ONE JOB. https://twitter.com/chicagotribune/status/758167864943804417 …

LikeAGirlProductions @likeagirlinc

Hillary Clinton: Nominated for president, but not for the front page; shows how “male-centred” American media ishttp://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-36908283 …

3:30 AM – 29 Jul 2016

Producer Josh @JLANGEL

Hillary Clinton makes history, but pics of her husband and former rival make the front page of the papers? #Fox35 pic.twitter.com/aufb9a1Np2

10:31 PM – 27 Jul 2016

Ida’s Revenge @profsassy

Sadly, picturing Bill not Hillary seems to be a trend this morning.#sexismisreal @EricHaywood @Ethnography911 pic.twitter.com/Nex4za9upe

9:29 PM – 27 Jul 2016

Karuna Nundy @karunanundy

When you’re close to being the world’ most powerful person and they still put your husband’s picture on front pages.http://www.vox.com/2016/7/27/12295726/hillary-clinton-bill-clinton-newspapers-front-pages …

6:11 AM – 28 Jul 2016

Heidi N Moore ✔@moorehn

I’m so annoyed about keeping Hillary Clinton off the front page because women are literally erased from history every day, made invisible.

9:48 PM – 27 Jul 2016

The Late Show ✔@colbertlateshow

How history will remember this moment? #ColbertDNC

12:29 PM – 28 Jul 2016

The Seattle Times realized this error and was fast to tender an apology to the general public, a day after.

“Wednesday’s front page, which featured a banner headline, ‘Clinton makes history with formal nomination,’ failed to include a photograph of Hillary Clinton, the first woman to lead a major-party ticket, instead putting the visual focus on former President Bill Clinton, who made an impassioned case for her election as the next president,” wrote the newspaper’s assistant managing editor Leon Espinoza.

“The omission upset many readers. In hindsight, we focused too much on the live moment and not enough on the history being made. We apologize for missing the mark.”