I decided to sit down and watch the The Rachel Maddow Show. This show airs through the news station MSNBC. This episode was aired on October 16th, 2015. I did not watch it live but I did find a link to the entire episode on YouTube. This show is obviously left leaning, in other words liberal, making for a very biased news show. I noticed with the show that liberals were praised and conservatives were scrutinized. Over the course of the show she covered various stories in politics ranging from Donald Trump is going to host Saturday Night Live to bringing up the old news story of Lincoln Chafee’s controversy with a Christmas tree while he was governor or Rhode Island. I did not find this news show to work well. I found the stories to jump around without finding the main point behind some of them. It seemed like stories were presented and not fully explained before moving onto the next story. I also found the stories being presented in a more general way instead of digging in and presenting the
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Which is what I believe was happening in this show. I understood what Rachel Maddow was discussing and the information given in this news show, but I was easily confused because the stories jumped from one to another quickly. I became confused on how the show can go from talking about how Ben Carson may not even be a republican now to how there is not any news on Jeb Bush, very quickly. I find myself not able to fully think about one story because it has already jumped to the next story. I find what she was saying to be clear but how it was all put together to be unclear. In this case, I think that the standard importance and relevance plays into the clearness. I think that because there were some irrelevant things thrown into the stories it made it
Which is what I believe was happening in this show. I understood what Rachel Maddow was discussing and the information given in this news show, but I was easily confused because the stories jumped from one to another quickly. I became confused on how the show can go from talking about how Ben Carson may not even be a republican now to how there is not any news on Jeb Bush, very quickly. I find myself not able to fully think about one story because it has already jumped to the next story. I find what she was saying to be clear but how it was all put together to be unclear. In this case, I think that the standard importance and relevance plays into the clearness. I think that because there were some irrelevant things thrown into the stories it made it