In this new age of technology, many new opportunities have been created for to make a name in this world, one of them being journalism. Not to say journalism is nothing without technology, but it enhances the profession to a new level. Being able to cover events and write about them digitally gives a whole new expansion of access to the consumer, increasing its popularity among the people. People are saved a trip to the local store or TV by being able to find out what’s occurring on their phones and laptops.…
Logos in this editorial have been used by David Leonhardt. By talking about how the liberal bias can be a media problem. Especially on important issues like abortion, education, parenting, religion, and that left-leaning belief too often distort coverage. This is saying that change can be a big problem for the Journal. Telling of how the liberal bias can be a bad thing for the people, and that it goes against the long time's reader’s interests of the journal.…
Sources: (3) Silver-Greenberg, J., & Gebeloff, R. (2015, November 1). Arbitration Everywhere, Stacking Deck of Justice. The New York Times. Retrieved October 30, 2016, from http://www.lexisnexis.com/lnacui2api/api/version1/getDocCui?oc=00240&hnsd=f&hgn=t&lni=5H8R-MRG1-JBG3-608D&hns=t&perma=true&hv=t&hl=t&csi=237924&secondRedirectIndicator=true.…
In Timothy Cook’s Media Power and Congressional Power, the main point is that the media coverage goes hand-in-hand with popularity in government. Up until two centuries ago, the media was not crucial in the search for election or re-election. Officials had to work their way up the totem pole, and network with higher bureaucrats to build relationships and resumes. In turn, now the media helps to get them reelected, and surprisingly helps in policymaking, influence on Congress and Washington, and for personal ambitions. Cook truly describes this new partnership with Washington and the media by saying, “Making news has become a crucial component of making laws.”…
The author of this political cartoon is David Horsey. He usually does political cartoons and for this specific one, he purposely chooses his audience that belong to everyday average parents, teachers, and gun loving patriots all the while persuading them of his opinion by using rhetorical words and images. The comic itself displays how he feels on gun control, and how little security the public is allowed to have for themselves whether it be concealed or otherwise. How the comic is formatted to look and the culture also greatly affect his work. The cartoon’s main figure ( Sarah Palin) also believes that gun control could easily leave millions of people defenceless in the U.S., which given with the several who seek to brutalize Americans such as Terrorists, crazed gun-men, and even random psychos .…
The Battle for Christmas is a book, written by Stephen Nissenbaum, which discusses the evolution of the Christmas holiday and how it came to be so. Before the 1800s, Christmas was viewed as an occasion for riots and drunkenness. In his book, Nissenbaum presents how this culture transformed in the nineteenth century and how Christmas became a festival of consumerism and domesticity. Below is a review of factors that led to the bringing of the civilized Christmas holiday and the problems that were encountered in doing so. How poor people such as slaves, newsboys, and students celebrated the Christmas holiday.…
Paper #4 In his book “Dog Whistle Politics”, Ian Haney Lopez shares how politicians have been silently pushing a racist agenda while they minutely express other topics. Sometimes this racist agenda isn't purposeful, but can be, and has been. I believe the example given in this paper, is one of those purposeful instances.…
Geraldo Rivera Geraldo Michael Rivera is a famous American reporter and talks show host personality (Smith 1). He was born in 1943 the Fourth of July in a health center situated in New York City. His father, Cruz Allen Rivera was a cab driver, a Spaniard, who hailed from Puerto Rica. Rivera`s mother was named Lillian, a Jew from Russia. Rivera`s parents migrated to the United States of America (USA) because of racial discrimination in their native land (Martinez 195).…
Many view media as a source to receive reliable information. Over the years, technology has evolved and shaped society by manipulating an individual to believe a certain way, thus creating a one sided viewpoint. Mass media often uses different appeals to persuade its audience in order to keep ratings high. Various media sites portray their political beliefs as a strategy to convince people on what is acceptable in society. These sources often state information that the public wants to hear rather than stating facts and all sides to the story.…
Living in a world of increasing technological advances and a growing availability of information, our world has become a mess of controversy being presented from countless sides. Today's social issues don't just pertain to one particular region like they used to. Because of our newfound ability to communicate with massive amounts of people at one time, our issues have become the issues of the world. My generation, the millennials, may not be the largest generation in numbers, but we are the largest in untapped potential. It's a common misconception that our generation is least likely to vote, and it may have been true in the last presidential election.…
Mitt Romney’s Rhetorical Strategies in “Faith in America” This nation was founded on religion, and eventually, the slogan evolved into “In God we trust.” The great American leaders of the past never dared forget the God in Heaven who watches over the land and the people. In America, religion seems to be the heart and soul of the country. It seems to be the gears turning and allowing the country to continue moving forward and progressing at such incredible speeds.…
Glenn Beck's Irresponsible Rant Glenn Beck expresses his dissatifation for the goverments lack of not taking the claims of islim expreemis and lack of understanding, he's angry of the way the groverment is not the same. He states people are unhappy with the way the goverment was at the time, he dosen't think we take extremis serious enought and they are trying to take down the American goverment system. Beck refences Osama Bin Laden and his attack on the world trade centers he stated " in 1998 he heard his claims, haven't we learnded our lesson?" as to why the groverment should take terrorist attacks and threats more seriously, other then that Beck has on other verifiable claims and the impact of the gaps he has are serious Beck makes a statmet…
Racism and Stereotypes O’Reilly Factor is a TV show known for its Fox news segments, but on October 3rd it aired a controversial segment about the Chinese. In the article “Activists blast ‘O’Reilly Factor’ Chinatown segment as racist”, Lynn Elber talked about a particular segment and explained her point of view of what O’Reilly Factor had done with his TV segment. O’Reilly had played a segment where reporter Jesse Watters came to the Chinatown of New York and asked questions about politics. Watters interviewed multiple Chinese people, but it didn’t become controversial until he interviewed the elderly Chinese. The Elderly were non-English speakers and Watters asked these Chinese people questions for the segment.…
Fox News is one of the most controversial American television stations mainly because of one word, bias. They have been accused on several occasions of favoring the political right and misrepresenting facts/arguments. However, it seems to have gotten to the point where people just assume Fox News is overly biased based on what others say. There are a lot of people who have never even seen a decent amount of Fox News just because they assume that it’s garbage. I was one of those people until recently when I decided to actually take the time to watch and analyze the station.…
“Resist the Internet” The internet, resembles the dictator of our day to day lives. In life technology constantly bombards people of all ages. Humans are enslaved to the internet as author Ross Douthat states. Younger generations especially fall into this category because of the daily exposure to technology.…