John Oliver Last Week Analysis

In the article, “The Good, the Bad, and The Daily Show”, Jason Zinser, a teacher at the University of North Florida, discusses the coverage of “fake” entertainment news. Zinser effectively argues the different benefits and disadvantages of entertaining news. When reading this article, one can find that Zinser uses emotional appeals to create a sense of intentness to his readers, uses ethical appeals to create trust from his readers, and uses logical appeals to inform readers of the difference between humorus news and undeniable news.

As a community we long to know that we are safe from criminal activity on all levels. If we have property stolen or vandalized we expect that the perpetrator will be caught and held accountable for their actions and restitution will be brought forth. If a “mad man” is on the loose raping and kill members of our community we expect they will be caught and sentenced in the legal system and order will be restored. In reality we know that this is not an actuality. Often criminals accept plea deals, overcrowding of jails provide sentences to be reduced, and lawyers find “loop holes” for their defendants and no time is served.

In her article Sheila Polk, an attorney for Yavapai County, Arizona, writes about how she thinks truth in sentencing laws or as she calls them “TIS” (Polk), has bought the crime rate down in Arizona, “since 1994 our crime rate has steadily dropped--an astonishing 42% between 1995 and 2008--as our incarceration rate increased by 18%” (Polk). This ties in with victim’s right advocates because by keeping the crime rate down that in turn keep the victimization.

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At a rate of one in every three black men and one in every six Latino men incarcerated, continuous trends like these will manifest into a perpetual cycle of absentee fathers, single mothers, improvised urban neighborhoods and, not to mention an already inflated cost to the government (Rios, Green, 2009). As it currently stands, the government spends over eighty billion dollars annually in incarceration costs. That means the average American is paying two hundred and seventy dollars a year to support a failing system (Howard, Reeves, 2013). The Attorney General, Eric Holder, in a speech given at the American Bar Association annual meeting in San Francisco in 2013 encouraged federal prosecutors to disregard mandatory minimum sentencing especially for nonviolent and low level drug crimes, in an attempt to lower the prison population (Howard, Reeves, 2013). Reducing minimum sentencing to save money does not address the root of the problem, which is the mindset of the individual ex-offender and that of society encountering the ex-offender. Racism does, still exist (Quigley, 2011). But it can only be deduced, that with all the programs and services available to the ex-offender that can have a direct effect on desistence, the most important variable and cause for stagnation in improving instances of recidivism, still remains that of the will of the individual

Mass Incarceration is a growing dilemma in the United States that populates our prisons at an alarming rate. Michelle Alexander is a professor at Ohio State University and a graduate of Stanford law school. She states in her award winning book, The new Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness “In less than thirty years, the U.S. penal population exploded from around 300,000 to more than 2 million” (Alexander, 6). These young men and women are unable to afford a decent lawyer because they come from such a poverty-stricken background. Men and women are at a financial disadvantage in our justice system. Lawyers and attorneys cost a fortune and most people can just simply not afford them. Others plead to their charges because

Since the beginning of time, the United States’ Criminal Justice System (CJS) has been scrutinized and will continue to be. If significant changes were to occur within the CJS it could potentially take decades. Different persons, institutions, governments, and even departments within governments have different views; it is a natural occurrence. Thus, as with any subject matter, there are always controversies that cause disruption within society. Often, the controversies stem from the lack of understanding and the historical patterns of unsupported data.

It is important for anyone convicted of a criminal case, especially those who are innocent, to have an adequate attorney, in order to atleast have a chance in proving their innocence, Therefore, instead of continuing to put most of our money in the prison system, we should use at least some of that money towards public attorneys. According to a 2008 estimate by the American Bar Association, state and county governments spent 200 billion dollars on criminal justice every year but only spent 5.3 billion dollars on public defence systems (Laughland, 2016). In addition, many public defenders are overworked. About 73 percent of county public defender offices exceeded the maximum recommended limit of case (150 felonies or 400 misdemeanors), according to the United States Department of Justice (Brunt, 2015). Therefore, it is necessary to limit the amount of work provided to the county public defender offices which would allow the defenders to provide the time necessary to each of their cases in order to have a fair trial for the

Every year, consumers will spend 2.2 billion dollars on candy this year, witch is 22 teaspoons sugar per day, and 75 pounds sugar per year. In video of “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Sugar”, John Oliver is point out the food or drink company is not tell the truth to people how much the sugar are added to our food. For example, the hidden sugars including crackers, salad dressings, breads, ketchup, energy and sports drinks. These staff including a lot sugar that we don’t know, even most people like eat sugar and things mix with sugar taste good, but the point is excess sugar is not good for us. In the video, John Oliver’s purpose is tell the truth and fact about how much sugar we eat that

Bill O’Reilly is the author of Killing Kennedy, and he wrote the book in 2012. O’Reilly was born in 1949 in New York City and later graduated from Marist College with a degree in history in the 1970s. Bill then taught high school for many years before going back to college to get a masters degree in journalism. Starting in the 1980s, O’Reilly began working in television becoming a correspondent for many different news stations. In the 1990s, Bill went back to school this time at Harvard to get a degree in public administration. Shortly after this O’Reilly began his own show on Fox News and years later began his own radio talk show. In the past few years Bill has written a number of books that were about different parts of history including Killing Lincoln and Killing Kennedy. Since Bill O’Reilly has a background in history and even a degree in history so that makes him even more qualified to write a book on John F. Kennedy and his presidency. Also at the time of the Kennedy presidency O’Reilly was alive and an aware citizen of society. Since Bill O’Reilly lived through this part of history this makes him even more qualified to write about this time in America.

These are overworked and underpaid lawyers – meaning that defendant receives a lower-quality lawyer. These lower-quality lawyers increase the chance of racial minorities’ defendants to be sentenced and convicted at a higher rate. According to the Bureaus of Justice Statistics, 73% of Hispanics and 77% of blacks use a public lawyer. This means that 73% of Hispanics and 77% of blacks have the possibility of facing an underpaid and overworked public attorney thus increasing their chance of going to prison. The unfortunate economic disadvantages cause these people to go to jail more often. Any person may face economic difficulties but as a group Hispanics and blacks face them more and sadly because of this fact as a group they go to jail more

Thirdly, according to the Bureau of Justice, “African Americans are two in eleven times more likely to be arrested than Caucasians in the study conducted in 2009”(Quigley, 2015). “Fourthly, the author had explained that whites are more likely to be released from prisons when in the process of awaiting bail compared to black, which waited in prison for felony offenses up with 33 percent”( Quigley, 2015). Fifthly, public defenders as lawyer represent 80 percent of the population, which can positively be perused for racism. In continuation the sixth, has started an Equal Justice Initiative for the ability for

Sadly some of the best and most accurate news we get come from those that do not have a large enough platform to move minds. For this reasons we must magnify the reach of those who are providing news we all need to hear.

This video is about Public Offender, where John Oliver talks about the right to the attorney. The right to the attorney was first introduced in 1963. It gave the right to an offender to have an attorney by a court to defend an offender. It was reported, 60-90% need the public attorney to highlight specific victims. Today, attorneys are overburden because there is an increase in a number of cases and decrease in the number of attorneys. New Orleans spends 7 minutes on each case. This rarely grants equal protection law to an offender. Some states charge defendants for public defenders, including the litany of fees. The court should increase the number of attorney or defender to make the case stronger. I believe that spending seven minutes on

In the video of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, John Oliver discusses the problem of mass incarceration in the United States. He starts by talking about the extremely large prison population in America. According to Oliver America has a larger prison population than China despite having a much smaller overall population. In fact America has the largest prison population in the entire world. He then discusses how the prison population is mostly populated with minorities and that whites are extremely underrepresented in prisons. Oliver talks about how the prison population has grown eight times larger since 1970 and of that population 50% of the people in federal prisons and 25% of people in state prisons are there for a drug related crime. Oliver continues the discussion by talking about the general lack of public concern for prisoners. He uses clips from television shows as examples of how popular culture uses prison as a joke and does not take it seriously specifically when talking about sexual assault in prisons. He then shows another clip of the Director of Federal Prisons not knowing how big a solitary confinement cell is to point out that even the people in charge of prisons seem not to care about them. Oliver’s next talking point is about prisons becoming privatized and companies like Aramark and the Geo who care more about the profit of the companies than the prisoners they take care of. He ends the segment by summarizing that the conditions