Politico makes the disturbing discovery that women's magazines have a large audience and
don't hate Hillary Clinton like
self-respecting self-aggrandizing political reporters are supposed to do.
Clinton, a fashionista in her own right who counted herself among famed designer Oscar de la Renta’s friends, already has a natural home among women’s magazines and their mostly liberal audiences. But the reporting and writing often veers beyond alignment and into outright boosterism — if not of Clinton herself, then of Democrats and the progressive causes they identify with.
Take Vogue. In the past few months, the magazine — whose fabled editor, Anna Wintour, is an unabashed Clinton fan and has even taken her shopping — has featured John Kerry, a book about the first lady, and a feature on the first gay male White House social secretary, Jeremy Barnard. Clinton was the first first lady to appear on the magazine’s cover and has appeared in the magazine at least seven times.
"At least seven times" ... in more than 20 years of being in the public eye.
And a feature on the White House social secretary. The fix is in! In Hadas Gold's 11th paragraph we do get to the information that:
The magazines don’t ignore the GOP. Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, Reps. Elise Stefanik, Martha McSally, Martha Roby and Jaime Herrera Beutler have all been featured in print or online over the past few months. In previous years, Vogue has written about Laura Bush, Condoleezza Rice, Nikki Haley, Sarah Palin, Rand Paul and other Republicans. And as the cycle gets moving, more GOP women will probably be covered.
So really, women's magazines cover women in politics and women's issues, and since Hillary Clinton is a longtime powerful woman in politics, is now the most prominent woman in politics, and is speaking to issues like paid family leave, they will tend to cover her—but not only her! But there's a but:
But you’re not likely to see articles defending the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision, or arguments against federal regulations requiring equal pay for women.
Breaking: Women's magazines, in 2015, do not defend anti-woman policies.