Reason why I chose this topic.

My reason for choosing this topic was because I was inspired by how Elizabeth Cady Staton, Susan B Anthony and many other great ones that came after them who fought hard for their rights despite the lack of help and constant mocking and abuse from the media. In the early days of the 18th century, women had their husband dictate their whole lives, daily routine and marriage. With the help of journalism, bold and courageous Staton and Anthony created their own voice which was admirable because no one else before them did something like that,which included the Seneca Falls convention started by Staton. What was the most inspiring was that despite the lack of technology,phones and convenient transportation and the "failure" of their first publication, they persisted still managed to reach out to women across the country with the help of journalism and that somehow united the women in the country. Even with massive verbal attacks from the media and failure of the women suffrage press, that did not discourage them, in fact it fueled their movement and the National American Woman Suffrage Association was founded by them . It took seventy two long years before women had the right to vote in this country but their efforts were well worth it.  This also showed me how damaging the media can be showing biased and one sided news to the public in attempts to discourage others from supporting the women suffrage. And unfortunately their constant attacks worked. If the media had supported their movement, instead of abusing their power it would not have taken that long for women to finally be seen as equals in this country. This is a good example to remind us that a biased media can cause great setbacks to specific groups of people they choose to ostracize and make their victims. And this is still very relevant today with the media still being biased in alot of ways and creating false images of other countries,religion and the real living conditions of minorities,women in 3rd world country and such.