"Mediating Hillary Rodham Clinton"

I just finished reading "Mediating Hillary Rodham Clinton" by Shawn J. Parry-Giles, and I must say, it almost put me to sleep. I found it really hard to keep up with what his point was, expecially since he just jumps from Hillary being criticized for being a feminist to how camera people zoom in on her face to make the picture seem more "intimate." I also don't like how this writer uses pictures of her as examples, but never shows these pictures to us so that we can inerpret them for ourselves. Half the time, I did not even know what his opinions were because half of his paper was quotes from other sources expressing their opinion.
I don't completely agree with this guy about the how the zooming in of a picture of video clip makes that form of media seem more personal because the only thing that zooming in is doing is allowing viewers to see more details such as the speaker's facial expression or how she is balling up her fist. We can "become recipients of her anger" looking at her from one hundred feet away or two inches away(384). If I'm watching a video segment of somebody on television, I will feel their anger or pain whether or not I can see every little wrinkle on their face.
However, this article did give me some insight into how the media can manipulate pictures from one event to make them look like pictures about another event, such as the time NBC aired a picture of Hillary crying and made it seem like it was her reaction after her husband confessed about his affair with Monica Lewinsky. Then we find out that the picture was actually taken at a memorial service for those "killed in the Tanzania and Kenya Embassy bombings," where many people there, including President Clinton and Hillary, wept. This ceremony took place four days before President Clinton's confession (382).

Parry-Giles, Shawn J. "Mediating Hillary Rodham Clinton." p.375-89