Propaganda techniques

In the world of journalism, journalists must simultaneously entertain and convince their audience in order to stay relevant. To entertain, journalists must have a highly biased or controversial viewpoints on several subjects, and to appear credible, they must communicate with rhetorical strategies. For example, in 2008, the Great Recession damaged many Americans, which gives Anna Quindlen the right timing to write an essay with proper rhetorical strategies. In Anna Quindlen’s “Stuff Is Not…

Everyone knows how much power the press and advertising have in shaping the news, how its choice of stories and words influence its readers. What are the media? Do the media reflect the views and values of society or is being influenced by it? The term media can be defined as the whole form of mass communications, including newspaper, magazine, television, and internet. As states in her article, “Television has become a scapegoat for all sorts of societal and cultural ills. Critics blame…

Flex mentallo is based on the success of a Charles Atlas ad called “The insult that made a man out of Mac”. Charles Atlas was a public figure who promoted the idea of transformation. His ads revolved around the notions of anxiety and metamorphosis. There was an anxiety associated with being a small fragile boy, so by transforming into muscle men these boys could hide their insecurities. Atlas showed that metamorphosis was possible, so these little boys could transform into men just as…

It’s also how you feel about your body and how you imagine, portray and emotionally feel about your body. Media shapes and influences how the public sees things. They influence everyone opinions, but we abuse the media’s hurtful thoughts towards the public. Images in the media make people want to be someone else’s idea of perfect and completely forget about their own personal goals. The stereotypes from the media are someone that’s thin, tanned and rich. If you aren’t any of those you can’t have…

People have very different opinions about celebrity endorsement. Sue Jozui in her excerpt argues that rules and guidelines should be legislated for advertising using celebrities. Jozui supports her argument by first describing multiple examples of celebrity endorsed products. She continues by explaining how the audience is influenced by the celebrity. Jozui’s purpose is to convince consumers to boycott this type of advertisement so that the consumer is not insulted or misled. She establishes a…

In Matthew A. Baum’s book Soft News Goes to War, he asserts that people with little to no concern in politics get their information about politics from soft news-news with the main purpose of entertaining but also provides some information on political events. Baum insists that nowadays, newscasters are becoming more capable of sparking people's’ interest in politics through entertainment, which results in non-political buffs learning some recent news about politics. He states that this could…

Viewers tend to watch news channels which the individual believes rather than channels do not believe in because people do not want their opinions being challenged. As the viewer watches tv or news channels, the viewer does not want to spend hours on the internet searching or flipping through different news channels trying to look for the true story. News reporters know several different ways to get to the viewer, emotional appeal being one of many. Reporters are convincing with words to get to…

Our current propaganda in the United States is targeted mostly at the upcoming election and the candidates involved, while in the past with the Nazi propaganda, it was more targeted towards stopping Hitler and the Nazis and protecting the US. Though both of which in comparison to the propaganda in the Hunger Games are drastically similar, and drastically different as in the Hunger Games the rebel side propaganda was targeted towards stopping the Capitol, and the Capitol propaganda was to stop…

The editorial page of a newspaper, magazine, or another source is a public forum to express one’s view of a newsworthy topic to a diverse audience. An editorial presents the writer’s opinion on a topic to inform or influence the reader regarding the issue, as well as provides evidence to justify their position and suggestions to resolve the issue (Zarza, Tan, Chan, & Ali, 2015). Poorly written editorials should not be published without revisions, because the purpose of the editorial is lost in…

Reading Rosenberg’s thoughts in her chapter “A Good Sailor” she once again seemed to take more of a top down approach, although she studied many people her main focus was on the men who made people disappear. I believe that this provided a unique prospective of how one looks at the events that have taken place. Like she had stated in her chapter on El Salvador “The Laboratory” many journalist focus on the most obvious victim but not on the men and women of a higher social status or in this case…