Political Rhetoric And The Media

In the article “Requiem for Real News” written by Chris Hedges, Hedges makes an argument that society is losing expertise with the news now changing from print to online. The change from print to online is also causing a change in what is deemed news. Upon first look on this article, this argument seems to be effective; however, the argument is not effective. While Hedges has some strong pieces of pathos like when provoking anger in the audience of the working men and women towards corporations and use of cause and effect strategy, extended definitions, and comparisons to logically make an argument that corporations want the public to be in the blind, Hedges fails to present enough ethos to back up his argument which ultimately causes his article to become an ineffective argument.

In her article, “Higher Youth Voter Turnout Could Change Election Outcome: Pollster,” Joan Bryden argues that political leaders do very little to engage youth in upcoming elections. Currently, political leaders are focus mostly on older voters who do vote, rather than younger voters who are looking for more change. By only focusing on those who do vote, politicians fail to see how younger voters are more keen on change occurring in their society. As a result, younger voters do not understand what politicians stand for during the election. Political leaders could do more to encourage youth voters by “adopting a more helpful, can-do manner,” through face-to-face interaction and mobile technology, discussing topics of concern such as affordable housing and education, finally, communicating a clear picture of what their party stands for.

Elections are a time of competition between two candidates. They bring about controversy and criticism. Neither candidate is necessarily the candidate of choice. In Neshoba county Mississippi 2015, Attorney general republican candidate, Mike Hurst, gives a brief, nondescript speech on why he should be elected as the attorney general in the state. Hurt uses limited experience, a narrow amount of statistics. He is putting his message out by compelling his audience by using emotionally evoking word choice to persuade fellow Mississippians that he cares about the state, the state's people, and the he is the candidate of choice.

I agree with you that communication with the public is very important to detect bioterrorist, terrorists’ main agenda is to cause fear and chaos among societies. Therefore, the government should create channels to inform the community about the next course of action in case of an attack. With that said, the Islamic State is very impressive in how it uses the social media platforms to attract and appeal to jihadist to join its cause from all over the world. I believe you hit it on the head when you said that the best option is to use subject matter experts who are knowledgeable in the particular field.

For my news media task, I chose to write a news report in a tabloid newspaper.

The main goal of this article was to evaluate how voters participated on the internet during the 2004 election. Unlike previous years, the 2004 election saw an increase in voter participation amongst the younger crowd. One of the contributing factors to this increase was the Internet. The internet as a whole has helped restructure how political campaigns are run and set forth a new objective: to gain the young vote. The problem was that young voters, when compared to older generations, were not as active in the presidential campaigns and lacked the motivation to participate. The solution to this problem was to redefine how the internet connected with the voters and to encourage involvement with the campaign itself. The traditional television

It’s true—when compared to the older generations, younger people do not engage as frequently with mainstream news sources. According to research conducted by the Pew Center, only 27% of people ages 18-29 follows news regularly, compared to 46% of people ages 30-49, and 61% of people ages 50-64 (Mitchell). Instead, an increasing number of young people rely on late-night comedy shows for their share of political news—61% of people under the age of 30 were found to get a share of their political news through late-night comedy shows in 2004 (Peterson). The prevalence of late-night comedy shows does not indicate that young people are misinformed or disinterested about politics; instead, late-night shows such as The Daily Show often contribute to

With significant technological advances over the past decade, the way people consume media has changed drastically, especially in the realm of politics. As communications professor Jeffery Jones stated in his text Entertaining Politics: New Political Television and Civic Culture, “media are our primary points of access to politics—‘the space in which politics now chiefly happens for most people,’ and

In the article “Hostile Media Perceptions, Presumed Media Influence, and Political Talk: Expanding the Corrective Action Hypothesis” by Barnidge and Rojas it states that “While some scholars have considered political talk a form of political participation others have considered it a variable that facilitates media’s influence on political attitudes and behavior or as a variable that otherwise relates to political participation”. (136) It also talks about how there are people who have higher levels of hostile media perceptions (HMP) and presumed media influence (PMI) that purposely seek out people with the opposite opinion on politics to talk with them and try to convince them that their opinion is better. When someone has a hostile media perception

By show of hands how many people in here have heard the terms: left wing and right wing? Some people understand that it is political jargon for political division, others may be staring at their television wondering why the news is talking about bird anatomy. Many people hear these terms, but do not understand what they mean. I myself was one of those who did not understand, not a bird enthusiast, but one who was in the dark about what the terms meant. This was until a year and a half ago when our big trip called the 2016 election began. I began watching the news and researched were the various terms came from, as well as where I stood on that line. Jonah Goldberg, a columnist for National Review online, claims that americans as a whole having become much more accepting of one each other, so long as they have the same view (“The Current Political Divide”). What the writer means is that we the people are willing to accept anything except opposing views. Understanding what the division is, as where the left and the right view things, is a big first step in deciding where you stand and which group to support.

Philosophers, such as Plato, Gorgias, Aristotle, had always been debating about rhetoric’s definition. However, commonly, they agree that it is a very strong and effective art, in which aiming for persuasion. Throughout the history, rhetoric has always been in a strong relation with politics. Politics is a very vague and furious world however, most people approach in order to better demonstrate a balanced social community thus a balanced country. Despite all the great usefulness that politics provide, the bad practices and Ideals of it has always led; globally and internationally, to fierce conflicts. These conflicts are also a result of the strong competitions between politicians over two main objects: power and money. It is agreed upon by philosophers that rhetoric benefits human greatly and in different ways, however, it is mostly used in politics as a tool in which serves one’s, Party’s, or group’s interests. The US 2016 Presidential Campaign, is a strong example in which shows how some Candidates misuse rhetoric aiming to win the competition and serve their personal interests.

In a reasonable world we expect that all sources of media will gather different acts and situations and broadcast it fairly, and responsively. Each individual relies on the media in order to receive information daily. The question raised in this essay is “Has the media shown news accurately, fairly or even completely?” And “How has it brought down the economy”. Throughout this essay I will look into the media and its influences that it has on politics, Its Government and the economy that surrounds itself within it.

Is the American news media being honest like it was to be back when our great nation begin? Many American’s don’t believe the media today because of the views that the media takes. The 2016 election year was one of the ugliest presidential elections in the history of the United States between Donald J. Trump and Hillary Clinton. The news media play a big role in the election as they bring the news to the public about Clinton and Trump. The media is has changed the delivery form the traditional news delivery, to the now comical delivery in shows like SNL. Because television stations tend to be either liberal or conservative and craft stories to appeal subtle and unbiased political news coverage and commentary is increasingly difficult to find.

Back when the 2016 election was full-force, there was one candidate that drew in younger voters more than any other. He was a 76-year-old career politician. This man was Bernie Sanders, and even though my peers and good ol’ Sanders were insurmountably distant in age, he understood the political culture of the United States’ youth. He discussed issues that affected the kids of our future, such as education,

Today, in our society, a major form of educating the public is through media. Media is constantly playing key roles for our political system along with informing the public with crucial knowledge about other countries. It has helped changed the way the human population interacts with each other as well as developing a more unified opinion among the subjects, which it affects. Media is a form of communicating with one another that tries to provoke a certain message. Usually it is opinionated in some way that persuades the audience to agree with what they are watching.