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2. Who believed that women are hardly in the news?

  • Gallagher
  • Tuchman
  • Gill

3. What did Gill believe?

  • women are symbolically annihilated in the media
  • female issues are often marginalised by newspapers in that the editors see the need to have women's pages which focus on women as a special group
  • women are invisible in the media

4. What is meant by the term "symbolic annihilation"?

  • women's sports rarely covered
  • womens achievements are often not reported, or are condemned or trivialised by the mass media - achievements presented as less important than looks and sex appeal
  • women hardly in news
  • women are invisible in the media

5. Who believed that magazines promote a cult of femininity which shows how excellence is achieved through caring for others, marriage and appearance?

  • Orbach
  • Ferguson
  • Wolf

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