Essay On Presidential Debate

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How Do We Interpret Media Commentary On the Presidential Debate?
“Run and do what she wants before she starts nagging at you” is still my motto up to this day. I cannot stress over how many times I've heard the SBTN, which is the Saigon Broadcasting Television Network channel airing, not only in my household but other Vietnamese households as well when I visit my family members in Georgia or California or even when I’m getting dragged to a party by my parents. Piggybacking that statement, though my grandma is an avid subtitled drama fan of all nationalities, I remember her looking at the clock all of a sudden, and then relentlessly telling me to go downstairs to switch the channel to 2072, SBTN, so she wouldn't miss the news. Being the obedient kid that I am, much to my older brother’s dismay, I'm still repeating that same course of action whether it is in
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They both would scroll down their newsfeed and see posts, in Vietnamese, from their friends about the presidential debate. The article would be translated to something similar to, “Hillary Clinton is a liar. Donald Trump is a sexist pig!” Though that can be researched and proven or denied when looking at what the text has to say, you guys take that article title and the text itself for its word. What you should consider doing is actually clicking on the post and analyzing the data given and researching more to verify the information, due to the fact that the programs and policies asked by the moderators and briefly discussed by Hillary and Trump will nonetheless affect the entire country when one of them eventually assumes the office of presidency. If you guys aren’t aware how to research, then simply ask any one of the kids in the household to look it up for you and confirm or deny the

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