One Voice Is Missing Thesis

Lastly, each article differs in the way they reveal their overall purpose. Cohen’s article, for example, puts his main focus towards defending the craft that he has dedicated his entire life to perfecting, along with manipulating his audience into believing a straw man that he set up in his article.

The entire editorial board at the New York times decided to cooperate on an op-ed piece covered on Donald Trump concerning his post election actions and decisions. The Op-Ed was titled “What President Trump Doesn’t Get About America” and was published on the New York Times on January 20, 2017. The rhetorical situation behind the piece is the after-effects of Mr. Trump's official inauguration which took place on the same date the Op-Ed was published. The author's purpose and intended audience is to inform and persuade the American people that America was and will be fine even with some of the so-called harsh executive decisions of Trump.

With this year being the year that a new president takes over, there has been a lot of news surfacing that may or may not be true. When looking at an article we must look at different criteria of things like the facts used, names mentioned, publication dates, and altogether the article and what it is saying.

There has been recent news about recent threats that North Korea is imposing on America. Emily Tillett, author of the article, speaks of Donald Trumps orders to prepare a fight against NK. The purpose of the article is to persuade the audience, American citizens, to trust Trumps decisions in going

take on our countries foreign policy and by the end of the article questions whether or not our

Not even three full months into his presidency, President Donald Trump has received massive backlash for even the most miniscule of things. The media coverage that Trump has is unparalleled to any president before him. Journalists from all over the world realize that the President is the biggest story on earth right now, and they do not intend to ease off. Presented with a story as tantalizing as this one, one has to think why would they want to stop? Readers dig the stories the press writes about Trump almost as much as they disagree with what he says. The columnists have made their opinions overtly clear in their writings with the help of rhetorical devices such as metaphors, motifs and paradoxes. They then follow up on this with cherry

For my issue I will be focusing on the influence of the American mainstream media after the September 11th attacks and during the United States’ international military campaign known as the ‘War on Terror’. On September 11, 2001 otherwise known as 9/11, a series of terrorism where committed in which the Islamic terrorist group Al-Qaeda devised four bomber attacks on U.S landmarks killing 2,977 people (CNN). Shortly after the events of 9/11, George W. Bush enacted the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorist (AUMF) and from his administration declared their own definition and objectives regarding the war on terror. The declaration would create not only a mass media indolent but insight a decade long conflict of fear of security

Syria has been in war for four years. The rebels versus the president, Bashar al-Assad, and his loyal troops. But in 2016, the war has worsened. One of Syria’s major cities, Aleppo, has been getting bombed relentlessly by Russia. Innocent people die everyday. Children are left hurt and parentless. People that survive unscathed try to flee the city, only to find they cannot. They are prisoners in the city they once loved.

Hillary, Jeb, Facebook and Disorder: Review Thomas L. Friedman discusses a variety of topics in his article titled “Hillary, Jeb, Facebook and Disorder”. As a result, Friedman makes it very complicated to clearly address his thesis or his call to action. The numerous topics that Friedman describes is an example of

and mocking when talking about Donald Trump’s governmental decisions. ANNOTATIONS - “Trump’s Folly” – Thomas L. Friedman Friedman, Thomas L. “Trump’s Folly.” Nytimes.com. The New York Times, 13 Sep. 2017. Web. 26 Sept. 2017. SOAPSTONE Speaker: Well-known journalist Thomas L. Friedman does not like Donald Trump’s government. His writing style is simple and he includes

There has been an a crisis that has been happening in Syria for awhile now. This conflict has been impacting a lot of people in their community and those that are out of the county. This includes the United States as an example. It was instructed and formally written that the higher authorities at the White House are being demanded to take in more refugees into the States. Along with, it 's been shown that we have been taking more refugees over the period of time since this first had started.

People died and a lot of them. Assad has basically thumbed his nose at Obama and the world. This article positively dripped with sarcasm by the author. He is right in believing we could have done better by Syria. Doing nothing was the wrong answer. Obama Acknowledged that he did not pay enough attention and failed to exploit ambiguity is so wrong on many platforms. For one, it is very vague. It reminds me of the Ostrich’s head in the sand analogy: It will all go away if I ignore the situation. Cohen states that Trump’s rhetoric is a chest pounding reaction to Obama’s non action. Failure of this magnitude will come back to bite America later after the 2016 elections. What the issue is, is that America is but one country and America’s allies need to work together to find a consensus on how to respond in situations like Syria and the Middle East. Cohen states that Syria did something awful and now the whole world is at risk. Another generalization documented that fits the hasty category. Both Obama and Cohen are guilty here with the generalizations. Welcome to the human race. Life is all about what is right and what is easy. Actions that represent how world allies see this situation are never the easy choice. It affects all life on the planet. It should be democratic and a world decision on how to proceed. Leaders like Assad care more about money and power than the people who live under his rule. This is so wrong from a world standpoint, these leaders need to understand that all humans deserve basic rights and ignoring tis fact are unacceptable on every level and the world allies need to step up to prevent injustice wherever it happens in the world. Human genocide was wrong in Syria and the world needs to make sure it never happens

“The press is very effective in telling us what to think about” says Dr. Srinivas Melkote, in his article on the way in which the times framed events leading up to the Iraq war. I believe him to be entirely correct, for this has been the often subtle desire of the press in all of its forms: to influence its readers to think in the way they want us to. For this section however, I will confine myself to merely reviewing the variety and scope of the articles before I delve into their meanings and biases. As a prominent news organization, the Times sees itself as responsible for reporting newsworthy events to the public to inform them and better equip them for living in and responding to society, as well as protecting them from manipulation. The Iraq war, from the initial motivation to reaction by the acts on 9/11 to the aftermath that is still being dealt with, is certainly a newsworthy event which any American news company worth the paper they print on surely covered. With such a massive story however, involving so many facets and sprawling over such a protracted amount of time, the Times could not encompass it within a single article, nor would it have been right to do so if there goal is a properly informed public. This being the case, many hundreds of articles were written by the Times in order to give the public access to as much information and as many different perspectives as they could, so as to better encapsulate the ever evolving narrative that is the Iraq war. It is from reading these articles that I hope to better understand the motivations behind any predisposition of opinion that I find within the

On the other hand, a U.S. military intervention is unlikely to happen since the U.S. cannot afford, politically or economically, an unsecured contribution to the Syrian war for an unpredictable period of time, especially after Obama’s foreign policy has been focused on ending all military involvements in Iraq and Afghanistan. The U.S. army hasn’t seemed to rest from the wounds of the two major past war, and veteran families were promised that military interventions will end, which makes the issue of intervention in Syria even more complicated for the U.S.

This article demonstrates extreme bias as it is a letter from the president of Georgia in regards to his views of the war. These represent the views of the Wall Street Journal on the Russo-Georgian War. Although Saakachvili is the president of Georgia, he does not display blatant bias as the previous sources had in regards to the war. Saakachvili writes the facts from his point of view, and his word choice demonstrates persuasion/use of bias. The president uses the words “democracy”, “freedom”, and “independence” frequently in his letter, which appeal to the American reader. In addition, his syntax describe the intensity of the event. He wrote,”Our offers of peace were rejected. Moscow sought war” (Saakachvili). The short sentences with no