A Call to go in Between the Sheets: Finding Power and Significance in Studying Sex and Sexuality in Communication Research

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-2024

Publisher

SAGE

Source Publication

Journal of Communication Inquiry

Source ISSN

0196-8599

Original Item ID

DOI: 10.1177/01968599241265563

Abstract

Following the leak of a United States Supreme Court opinion to overturn the 50-year precedent of Roe v. Wade, media discourse erupted about the implications of such a decision on women's rights to choose and political rights to life. In former Washington Post media columnist turned Executive Director of Columbia's Newmark Center Margaret Sullivan's (2022) interview with award-winning journalist Eyal Press, Press claims that journalists have catered to the pro-life movement and shares that “Journalists need to do a better job of connecting these dots,” he said. They should “unpack just what ‘pro-life’ means.” This unpacking is something former CNN Reliable Sources anchor and chief media correspondent Brian Stelter (2022) also took to in his critique. He claimed that what is missing from the press's coverage of Roe v. Wade, abortion, and pro-life v. pro-choice is one word: sex.

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Journal of Communication Inquiry, Vol. 48, No. 4 (October 2024): 499-617. DOI.

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