Everyday people view articles and stories that are produced by the media. Just one event can create hundreds of different stories explaining the event. Each type of media and each company produces a different story. It is so hard to distinguish which articles are telling the truth and which ones aren’t. The hardest articles to see the truth in are ones involving politics or large scale world issues. This is because the opinions on these issues are usually heavily voiced and trying to persuade completely. These authors try to persuade their readers to believe their article is the truth because it's truly what they feel. The story that I reviewed during this project was a Saturday Night Live skit involving Donald Trump (played by Alec Baldwin)
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Breitbart is known to be very right wing, which means that they are fully on Trump’s side. The Breitbart title reads, “ SNL Audience Cheers Wildly After Character Call Donald Trump ‘Little White Bitch’. I am going to examine this title to start off. Right away the reader gets a sense that the SNL crew and audience were out to get Trump. This was exactly the meaning of the skit that they put on, but Breitbart made it seem like the longtime comedians that run this show weren’t joking anymore. Adding onto that, once again just by looking at the title it reads that Trump was called a “little white bitch”. This shows the reader that this article is going to focus mainly on the negative of effects of the skit that Saturday Night Live put on. This Breitbart article is also very short. It is three sentences long and the writer added a link to the video of the skit. The video that the writer linked is also only the part that Trump is being disrespected. Breitbart only focused on the derogatory comments and not once did the writer comment on any other details. This article proves to be a good example of information that is wrongfully passed on. These SNL comedians have jokes about everyone! They have jokes about every race as well as every celebrity. So, of course they are going to comment on the President’s recent actions. If a reader were to pass on this information it would not be false, but it would be heavily
Breitbart is known to be very right wing, which means that they are fully on Trump’s side. The Breitbart title reads, “ SNL Audience Cheers Wildly After Character Call Donald Trump ‘Little White Bitch’. I am going to examine this title to start off. Right away the reader gets a sense that the SNL crew and audience were out to get Trump. This was exactly the meaning of the skit that they put on, but Breitbart made it seem like the longtime comedians that run this show weren’t joking anymore. Adding onto that, once again just by looking at the title it reads that Trump was called a “little white bitch”. This shows the reader that this article is going to focus mainly on the negative of effects of the skit that Saturday Night Live put on. This Breitbart article is also very short. It is three sentences long and the writer added a link to the video of the skit. The video that the writer linked is also only the part that Trump is being disrespected. Breitbart only focused on the derogatory comments and not once did the writer comment on any other details. This article proves to be a good example of information that is wrongfully passed on. These SNL comedians have jokes about everyone! They have jokes about every race as well as every celebrity. So, of course they are going to comment on the President’s recent actions. If a reader were to pass on this information it would not be false, but it would be heavily