The article in The Economist entitled “The parable of the sage grouse” (May 5, 2018) is ultimately about the perceived dangers of Ryan Zinke’s actions as Unites States Secretary of the Interior. The Economist is a weekly international newspaper that can be purchased in most major cities around the world. I accessed the print version of the article, but it can also be accessed online. The print version of the newspaper can be purchased for US$7.99 per issue which could be cost prohibitive for some people, but most likely not for the newspaper’s intended audience. According to The Economist’s online About us page,
A recent editor, Rupert Pennant-Rea, once described The Economist as a “Friday viewspaper, where the readers, with higher than average …show more content…
It is a high-quality publication. The typeface used is intended to be easy to read. It is amenable to electronic transmission as well as to the various printing conditions of the newspaper around the world. “The parable of the sage grouse” is a one-page article that is printed on a full page. In the upper left-hand corner of the page there is a caricature drawing of and aggressive and sour looking Zinke with an oversized head driving a bulldozer named the Department of the Interior. In the drawing, Zinke is tearing apart the environment, by digging up a greater sage grouse, in order to make way for business. The picture gives the reader advanced warning that the article is …show more content…
For example, the author write that Zinke’s deputy “attacked the large areas of conservation and environmental policy Interior controls” (The Economist, May 5, 2018, para. 4), Zinke’s department “eliminated 2m acres of protected areas” (para. 5), and “could even end up doing more damage to environmental policy than the EPA” (para. 6). Another theme is that of partisanship. The author speaks positively of collaboration several times. For instance, he/she writes that the collaborative land management policies that Zinke is undoing “are one of the most positive recent developments in American politics, a riposte to the dysfunction partisanship has caused” (para. 10). Furthermore, he/she writes that “the upheaval Mr Zinke has caused is already a setback to the collaborative, locally grounded approach to land management” (para. 10). This is important because the author is using his/her power to make the reader see the issue as the author does. As van Dijk (1993) points out, “managing the mind of others is essentially a function of text and talk” (p.
A recent editor, Rupert Pennant-Rea, once described The Economist as a “Friday viewspaper, where the readers, with higher than average …show more content…
It is a high-quality publication. The typeface used is intended to be easy to read. It is amenable to electronic transmission as well as to the various printing conditions of the newspaper around the world. “The parable of the sage grouse” is a one-page article that is printed on a full page. In the upper left-hand corner of the page there is a caricature drawing of and aggressive and sour looking Zinke with an oversized head driving a bulldozer named the Department of the Interior. In the drawing, Zinke is tearing apart the environment, by digging up a greater sage grouse, in order to make way for business. The picture gives the reader advanced warning that the article is …show more content…
For example, the author write that Zinke’s deputy “attacked the large areas of conservation and environmental policy Interior controls” (The Economist, May 5, 2018, para. 4), Zinke’s department “eliminated 2m acres of protected areas” (para. 5), and “could even end up doing more damage to environmental policy than the EPA” (para. 6). Another theme is that of partisanship. The author speaks positively of collaboration several times. For instance, he/she writes that the collaborative land management policies that Zinke is undoing “are one of the most positive recent developments in American politics, a riposte to the dysfunction partisanship has caused” (para. 10). Furthermore, he/she writes that “the upheaval Mr Zinke has caused is already a setback to the collaborative, locally grounded approach to land management” (para. 10). This is important because the author is using his/her power to make the reader see the issue as the author does. As van Dijk (1993) points out, “managing the mind of others is essentially a function of text and talk” (p.