Article Analysis: The Onion News Network

Today’s media (news) plays an enormous role in the lives of people in directing a specific perception of the world around them. Most often media conduct's a subconscious effect upon its spectators in which the upshots are deliberately or illdeliberatly towards a particular topic.

Having served nearly thirty years at CBS News, Mr. Goldberg had earned a reputation as one of the most original writers and thinkers in broadcast journalism. However, when he observed his own industry, he realized the liberal media had completely missed their mission to give honest news. After years of sharing his observations and promoting more balanced reportings, Goldberg soon realized that no one listened because they believed they were doing the right thing. The liberal bias continued, therefore Bernard Goldberg decided to take the situation into his own hands and expose the distortion of the media himself. Goldberg’s breathtaking and shocking best seller book, Bias, reveals the close-mindedness of the news culture and their mission to entertain rather than share facts.

While political issues like these were slowly demoralising the soldiers fighting the war, the media were still telling a heavily rose-coloured version of the ‘truth’. When the television images were shown in America before 1968, the editors had policies about what to show: More specifically, there were guidelines that were designed to

Within Joyce Nelson’s essay, “TV News: A Structure of Reassurance”, Nelson criticizes the TV news structure that perpetually disconnects current events from their historical background through comforting anchorpeople partnered with advanced technology to create a TV program that minimizes the important implications of current events. Though lacking the amount of information that a print news publication can maintain, the TV news can convey immediate information through technological advances of modern TV equipment to allow the medium to remain competitive. The façade of in-the-moment international information broadcasted directly to viewers enables anchorpeople to maintain the feeling of immediateness, keeping the viewers believing the program

Now I realise it seems a bit hypocritical of me to attack the media’s representation of a news event when I myself am a part of the hype-generating circus we call mass media. However, the voice of my wise, high-school English teacher echoes in my subconscious that we should always be critical of the texts we consume and conscious of the

Do you have sore feet and feel like there is nothing that can stop or prevent your foot pain? MagnaSoles are new shoe inserts for people just like you who have sore feet! Did you fall for these tactics? Companies use these marketing tactics everyday to convince people just like you to buy their product. In The Onion’s press release, the author demonstrates the use of the rhetorical triangle, bold diction and syntax, and vivid imagery to explain how Americans fall for marketing tactics companies use.

I almost spit take my water. “Yo-you worked from the rooftops during bombings?!” I exclaimed. “That’s a risky move.”

This is a typical propaganda article which relies heavily on the emotions of the viewer to convey its message. It first projects scenes of typical

In the article, written by the Onion, it drastically exaggerated the products towards customers with sarcasm, unrealistic data, and humor to elaborate the consistency of advertisers assuming low intelligence of the customers. Marketing is known for its broad way of advertising their products with realistic positive statistics. Bright ways to emphasize the item will be stereotypical motives to draw towards a specific crowd if needed to. Marketing categories is known for trying to bring in all kinds of relevance to their product. However, there is such a thing as crossing the line by subtly implying to the audience to buy this product. The Onion does this by showing bluntly satire motives as a fake company trying to sell the product of a shoe sole to the point it has been established as a joke in a series way. They throw in a shade of puns to draw the corney lovers. Sarcasm to remind the article is fake. As well the fact of hoaxed evidence.

In this article released from The Onion the writer uses satirical strategies such as sarcasm, humor, and mockery to show how easily customers fall into the outrageous claims made by marketers.

Topic: The key issue this comic is addressing, is how people in society are easily frighten by the media by believing what they hear on television rather than looking at all the facts.

Throughout history things have changed in society, especially in the past fifty years. Society has allowed the creators to either cater to the consumers wants or to do as they please. By allowing the creators to have this power, the society that is known today has both people pleasers and people that like to be in control. Newspapers have went from trying to cater to their audience to choosing to provide the information the way that they believe will attract more views. Cell phone creators were able to change how contacting someone over the phone from only a specific place into being able to do so at anytime and anywhere. Newspaper creators of The Onion take a different approach than the makers of cell phones on how they attract their consumers but they have both changed to adhere to the time period.

The 1976 Stanley Lument directed film, Network featuring Faye Dunaway, presents a satirical look at a fake news corporation, UBS. The movie attempts to depict what news organizations go through in their quest for both relevant and popular programming. During their journey, the organization struggles with its own ethics in creating news that isn't necessarily truthful and for the most part is only elevating the emotions of a particular base. In addition to depicting the advanced and multifaceted sides of television news networks, the film also makes a strong attempt at forming a strong narrative and characters that the audience for the most part can relate to and empathize with while watching.

Many news outlets rely on publishing sources of news that is satire. Satire utilizes on humor, irony, or exaggeration to uncover or highlight issues. One of which was displayed by PBS NewsHour, on the topic of "Donald Trump's Surprise election victory" mentioning the political satire on, "Fake election news more popular on Facebook than most popular election stories" (Fake, Par. D). The topic of current events or politics, satire is "designed to fool people into believing something that is not true" (Fake, Par. E). In today's world, false news is created with a specific purpose. People are being victims and are unable to comprehend the irony of satire in websites. For an example, in the article recent Change.org petition Psychologist Dannagal Young states, "Allow open carry of Firearms at the Quicken Loans Arena during the RNC convention" (Fake, Par. N). Many news outlets believed the petition to be true, but in reality, satire is

The research for this article was conducted within a framework of Framing theory. The theory was first put forward by a Canadian-American sociologist Erving Goffman. Media framing, to put it bluntly, is a term that points to a presence of a certain bias in any media outlets’ output. All choices made in a newsroom collectively form the frame through which media decides to show the world to the audiences. Everything matters: Covering one event and ignoring another, covering one event more than the other, deciding what words to use to cover an event, what photographs or video clips to include, whom to give a voice, etc. At the same time, framing theory goes far beyond newsroom policies. Framing is not necessarily a delibirate choice. Journalists themselves look at the world through frames: their education, upbringing, gender, ethnical background, knowledge of the issue, and so on. Audience members apply their own frames as well, not just to media content, but to everything they hear and see.