“The news is more often made than gathered. And it is made on the basis of what the journalist thinks important or what the journalist thinks the audience thinks is important or interesting” (Powers 13). The two news programs are Primer Impacto and PBS NewsHour. First, the length of Primer Impacto is half an hour, it is aired at five in the afternoon, Monday thru Friday. Primer Impacto on the channel Univision, a Spanish-language television network. The intended audience and purpose for Primer…
Basketball Basketball was invented in the year 1891 in Springfield, Massachusetts by a Canadian physical education instructor James Naismith. Naismith devised this game to condition his young athletes during the colder months. The sport did not begin with an actual basketball and two nets. It originally consisted of peach baskets and a soccer ball. He established thirteen rules and divided the teams into nine players each. The objective of the game was to throw the soccer ball into the…
her handling of classified information on her private email server, GOP nominee Donald Trump slammed the FBI's decision during a campaign rally in Raleigh, North Carolina. "I'll tell you that we have a rigged system folks" Trump said. "General Petraeus got in trouble for far less. Very, very unfair!” During his hour long rally to a crowd of 3,000 gathered in Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts, Trump focused most his remarks on criticizing the recent headlines centering Hillary email…
4. In this segment titled, The Redskins’ Name- Catching Racism, by former The Daily Show host Jon Stewart, the name of the Washington D.C. Redskins is critiqued by both fans of the football team and Native Americans alike. Due to the heavily entrenched racial connotation of the particular word “redskin” many feel as though it not only is entirely inappropriate, but also highly offensive to those who have felt the full impact of the nuance the word entails. However, fans of the team believe it…
As the 2016 Presidency Election gets closer, debates are heating up. With chaos erupting within the United States and outside of it with their allies, candidates are using a combination of specific dialogue and empathy towards the events to persuade their audience to elect for them for Presidency. This specific dialogue, for the most part, is what communication scholars would label as rhetoric speaking. According to McGraw-Hill Company, Rhetoric Theory is the available means of persuasion.…
In the article, Absorbing the Impossible, Maureen Dowd, a feminist and a slight liberal lean, suggests that Donald Trump won the President-elect because of the hidden Trump supporters and the misunderstood lack of Clinton supporters throughout the nation. Dowd develops her ideas further by addressing how Trump won for a combination of reasons including but not limited to: the annoyance of current Democratic government (“too much regulation, too much government”) strong dislike of opposing…
The United States is a vast country of many regions, ethnic groups, occupations, and different beliefs therefore; the number of interests groups will continue to grow over the years. Interest groups are an assemblage of individuals who share common objectives and who actively attempt to influence policymakers. They exist for us to have a voice and act upon it. Any individual who is willing to make a difference for their cause is welcomed to join a group. They operate at all levels of the…
personality Donald Trump finally accepted the invitation of Stephen Colbert to appear on The Late Show. Donald Trump will visit the Ed Sullivan Theater for the Late Show With Stephen Colbert on September 22, with the same schedule as Ernest Moniz (Obama's energy secretary), and critics are hoping that both parties can keep it civil. However, the current host of the late-night television talk show The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on CBS - Stephen Colbert, desired to have Donald Trump as a…
looking like Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders will make it to the presidential election, and for the Republican Party it is looking like Donald Trump or Ted Cruz might have what it takes to get that far. The country is mixed on whether or not Trump should be our next president, but we should not let this multiple time bankrupt businessman run the U.S.A. Trump is a racist man. On Twitter, he wrote that Latinos and African-Americans have committed most crimes. Yes, they have committed many…
election is better at using Fallieces than Donald Trump. What was once a name synonymous with money and power is now associate with wild claims about immigrants and China. On June sixteenth Donald Trump announced his candidacy for president. In a grand congregate of family members and supporters Donald Trump announced that he will, “Make america great again.” Mr. Trump has performed a metamorphosis from Donald Trump the real estates mongul to Donald Trump the brand. With any brand, fallacies…