Ryan Grenoble’s article “A White Terrorist Is a ‘Troubled Loner’, But Unarmed Black Teens Are ‘Thugs’” is a brief article on the Huffington Post. While many would immediately discredit an article from this outlet do to its left leaning tendency it is not always reasonable to do so. The article can be still very well written and may offer insight. This is all depending on the author of the article of course. Grenoble brings up and confronts the use of loaded or certain words in media coverage. Examples like in the article’s title. Grenoble does a good job in his argument as he directly shows examples of such things happening. However, while most of Grenoble’s evidence is solid there are a few things that do lack. Do to this it does bring Grenoble’s
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Grenoble’s argument is the media’s use of loaded words or not using certain word when discussing certain individuals. The author does this well by providing several links to outside sources that use some of these loaded words. This alone is undeniable evidence as it shows the exact thing Grenoble is describing happening. The link for “loner” leads to a fox news article and video. The article is titled “Planned Parenthood gunman lived in NC woods with no electricity, running water”. In the article it says “..gunman was a loner who lived in a mountain cabin..”. This is solid evidence of the media’s use of this loaded word. While some may view it as just a description or word. It can easily be used as a way to pull or evoke emotion in the reader. Also the use of the word alone corresponds with what Grenoble says as it fact that it is used in this piece of media. The other link on the words “troubled history” leads to an article on the site The Post and Courier. This article is titled “Shooting suspect had local history Accused in attack at Planned Parenthood” the article goes in depth about Dear’s past and his relation in the town. The article refers to Dear as the accused suspect so it can be assumed that this article was released before he was convicted of the crime. The author of the article says that the shooter “had a troubled history with ex-wife…” Once again this is an exact use of the words Grenoble mentioned. This however is different from the previously mentioned use of thug when describing Trayvon Martin. It is different because in this situation these words have no relation to the incident it means nothing whether or not he was a loner with a troubled past or a happy go lucky little league baseball coach with a 4 children. He is a terrorist and the media does not label him as such. Grenoble’s point stands and even brings this up. The author mentions how there is confusion on whether it is correct to
Grenoble’s argument is the media’s use of loaded words or not using certain word when discussing certain individuals. The author does this well by providing several links to outside sources that use some of these loaded words. This alone is undeniable evidence as it shows the exact thing Grenoble is describing happening. The link for “loner” leads to a fox news article and video. The article is titled “Planned Parenthood gunman lived in NC woods with no electricity, running water”. In the article it says “..gunman was a loner who lived in a mountain cabin..”. This is solid evidence of the media’s use of this loaded word. While some may view it as just a description or word. It can easily be used as a way to pull or evoke emotion in the reader. Also the use of the word alone corresponds with what Grenoble says as it fact that it is used in this piece of media. The other link on the words “troubled history” leads to an article on the site The Post and Courier. This article is titled “Shooting suspect had local history Accused in attack at Planned Parenthood” the article goes in depth about Dear’s past and his relation in the town. The article refers to Dear as the accused suspect so it can be assumed that this article was released before he was convicted of the crime. The author of the article says that the shooter “had a troubled history with ex-wife…” Once again this is an exact use of the words Grenoble mentioned. This however is different from the previously mentioned use of thug when describing Trayvon Martin. It is different because in this situation these words have no relation to the incident it means nothing whether or not he was a loner with a troubled past or a happy go lucky little league baseball coach with a 4 children. He is a terrorist and the media does not label him as such. Grenoble’s point stands and even brings this up. The author mentions how there is confusion on whether it is correct to