 Faludi describes 'trend journalism" of the 1980s, where newspaper articles gained authority through repetition rather than evidence-based reporting (79).Reporting on trends such as "cocooning ", "the new abstinence", "the new femininity", "the new morality" and "the new celibacy" pretended to be about facts while offering none.Trend stories contradicted each other, and served a political agenda by implying women's experiences had nothing to do with political events or social pressures (81).