Jennifer L. Pozner: Elizabeth Edwards Speaks Out Against Media Reform, for Net Neutrality, at BlogHer 2007

Published: July 29, 2007, 8:31 pm

In the coming days, I'll likely be writing a bit more about my panel/workshop session on making the candidates and the media answer women's key concerns in Election '08, and what unfolded overall at BlogHer07, the conference for women who blog (a term I prefer to use instead of the self-marginalizing "women bloggers" which, as Deanna Zandt posited during our WAM conference session on feminist blogging, implies that men are the "norm" in the blogosphere, just as "women doctors" and "women lawyers" implies the same for the medical and legal arenas). For now, though, I encourage you to watch this video from the conference's closing keynote with outspoken feminist blogger Elizabeth Edwards, wife of Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards. At minute 6:11 in the video clip, I asked Edwards whether she knew her husband's stance on media consolidation, and whether an Edwards presidency would take a strong stand on media policy reform to reverse the anti-democratic effects of the

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