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Rhetorical Analysis of Print is Dead What happened to paper? Is print the past. When reading the text of "Print is Dead" Miss Jamison introduces the idea that a culture of magazines, once very prominent and large, is now slowly being terminated by technology now used by online media. The notion that print is dying is surely one to take with a grain of salt, as print today is now filled with craft and sharpness. While magazines were out in the bunches in the past to bring information,…

Everyday people view articles and stories that are produced by the media. Just one event can create hundreds of different stories explaining the event. Each type of media and each company produces a different story. It is so hard to distinguish which articles are telling the truth and which ones aren’t. The hardest articles to see the truth in are ones involving politics or large scale world issues. This is because the opinions on these issues are usually heavily voiced and trying to persuade…

“Illustrated papers have become a feature. Every newspaper stand is covered with them. Every railroad is filled with them. They make the battlefields, the coronations, the corruptions of politicians, and naval heroes. They are, in brief, the art gallery of the world.” That was Frederic Hudson’s perception of the illustrated newspaper, emphasizing the importance of pictorial reporting in a newly developed nation. Pictorial reporting was introduced to America by Frank Leslie, giving way to a…

Amber Portwood has found herself in quite a sticky situation. Her relationship with Matt Baier has been rocky and recently, it took a turn for the worst. While it is unclear where they are headed at the moment and the status of their relationship is up in the air, Amber and Matt are dominating the headlines. Portwood has been quiet about her private life for the most part. She responds to the haters minimally, and only if she deems it necessary. The last few days though, she has been quite vocal…

In 2009 the Associated Press took a chance after much deliberation to publish a Julie Jacobson photo of a United States Marine Lance Cpl. Joshua M. Bernard, after he had been injured; the soldier later succumb to his injuries and perished. The family of the deceit asked that the photo not be published but the A.P. went on with the publication despite criticism, and I believe publishing was the right choice. This decision of mine did not come instantly, when doing my research on the topic my…

Political cartoons during the late 19th century Gilded Age revealed, on a large scale, key issues at stake throughout the era. These drawings flourished in the 1860s due to advances in new technology of mass circulation and because people of all kinds; young, old, black, white, educated, illiterate could interpret the intense meaning from the artists. Cartoonists emerged by the names of Thomas Nast from Harper’s Weekly, Joseph Kepper of Puck, Frank Beard, Eugene Zimmerman, Grant Hamilton, etc.…

In his editorial "Words Triumph Over Images," Curtis Wilkie describes the TV coverage of Hurricane Katrina as "unfiltered" and "reckless." He argues that print news journalists did a much better job covering the event than TV or radio news reporters, and for this reason he claims that print news is superior to other kinds of coverage. However, any type of news media could be characterized as either reckless or responsible, depending on how poorly or how well journalists use content, time, and…

Since the beginning of American journalism, there has been a relationship between the reader and journalist of supply and demand. The reader wants scandalous or critical news and the journalist is happy to provide. In the 1960s, Clare Boothe Luce, in a speech made for the journalists in Women's National Press Club, criticizes the journalists for their seemingly mindless continuation of the supply and demand cycle. Luce challenges them to focus on the complete truth, rather than a fantastical…

The responsibility the news media have is reporting events that happened so people can be aware to be safe. such as teenage suicides, kidnappings, and drive by shootings. they report these stuff because they want others to be safe, like when i hear about teenage suicides i believe the reason they report these type of suicides is to prevent teeangers killing themsleves and so that parents can be aware so this doesn’t happen to their loved ones. I interviewed my mom she said the news have the…

1.Columbus Marion (dad) Joiner, son of James and Lucy Joiner, was born near Center Star, Alabama on March 12, 1860. C.M. Joiner began law practice in Tennessee and was a member of the legislature of that state from 1889-1891. Joiner moved to Oklahoma in 1897 where he started his journey in the oil industry but unfortunately failed two times before moving to Texas in 1926. Despite being put down and discouraged by geologists, Joiner was sure of the possibility of the oil deposits east of the…