Everyone Should Be Allowed Their Own Voice

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Nancy Pelosi caught a lot of heat this Sunday from CNN for her reservations on condemning Conyers. The reason I wanted to highlight this article was because the word usage and lay out does seem very agenda focused from CNN.

Nancy Pelosi should be allowed to have her reservations. She should be blasted in an article saying that she "refuses" to condemn a person without seeing everything. Just because she won't attack someone else doesn't mean she herself should be attacked.

The headline is:
PELOSI REFUSES TO HIT CONYERS ON SEXUAL HARASSMENT ALLEGATIONS, CALLS HIM 'ICON'

Photo by Emily Morter

The headline hits Pelosi making it seem as though she's condoning sexual embarrassment and then quotes her when she said Conyers is an icon. BUT, the way the quote is done in the headline makes it seem extremely judgmental and vindictive. Something comparable would probably be something like seeing a headline for the rapper Eminem saying he's a "role model" (for those of you who do not know, Eminem is not a role model).

Photo by Claire Anderson

Now, some might believe Eminem is a role model, and that's their prerogative, just as it is Nancy Pelosi's to believe that Conyers is an icon. Finally, she has't condoned anything, she just removing herself from providing further hateful banter against him, which is something anyone should be allowed to do.

Lastly, immediately after that headline, the article starts to reiterate the point that Pelosi "refuses" to
hit Conyers. The rest of the article isn't that bad per se, but definitley a very agenda setting article making someone who wants to go through due process seem heartless. Poor Pelosi.