Wag The Dog And Saturday Night Live Analysis

A political cartoon explains an event or the effects of an event either in an humorous way or an serious but exaggerated way. The cartoonist can exaggerate a specific feature of an person or an event like the artist may make the ears of Obama’s extremely large because of how they feel about him listening to the issues but never doing anything about it. Or they make the statue of a famous civil movements leaders’ unfinished because they feel that their job is unfinished. The political cartoons are here to catch the attention of the public in a humorous way other than a serious way.

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.

By using a hurricane to describe the immigration politics hitting the Whitehouse, the author uses both pathos and logos to further his belief that chaos will ensue when the congress must come together to please the president, the supporters of DACA, and the immigrants. However, ethos is where the author lacks rhetorical persuasion as this cartoon is mainly driven by pathos and

Although Will is most commonly associated with Saturday Night Live, he did not start there. In fact his first taste of the television world was when he began working as an intern for NBC. He soon realized comedy was his calling when he noticed he drew laughter from large crowds when he would joke. He moved back in with his parents and began taking classes and eventually earned parts in the Reginal Theater. Soon Will had earned a regular spot on an improve troupe known as The Groundlings. After a while Will was earning guest spots on sitcoms like Living Single and Grace under Fire. It was not long before Will had captured the attention of Saturday Night Live founder and producer, Lorne Michaels (Editors 2)

The correlation between social media and politics has recently become prominent as President Trump has continuously sought Twitter as a platform to not only share his plans for the United States but also to initiate conflict by taunting and threats. Illustrator Joe Heller, within the political cartoon entitled “An Alternative Nuclear Button” effectively criticizes Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un’s war of words. The author calls attention to the American public’s fear of a nuclear war and the common wish that the individual in control of it should be more level headed. Both men of world power are portrayed as cartoons, with childlike and exaggerated features such as Trump’s hair and head size. Ironically, the two men that withhold the majority of the worlds nuclear power also use social media as an outlet and insult each other like children.

Symbolism is an important device for creating meaning in cartoon by eliminating words. This technique can be inferred everywhere anywhere basically anything that a human can see will have at least on symbolism either implied to its appearance, behaviour or it can just be someone or something one has given a meaning to. Symbolism is often used in political cartoons by editorialists as they are able to imbed deeper meaning into their creations. Also, from using this satirical device in the image audiences are able to have an open mind of what is occurring or even interpret their own meaning. ‘Trump Wants a Kiss’ is a political cartoon that has a variety of symbols. Enlightenment, is shown through the torch that is seen held in the left hand of the statue; from the way Statue Liberty is hold the torch and trying to defend herself with it, she is almost telling Trump to stop and to lighten up. Another object that the Lady Liberty is holding is a tablet and written on it is the date of American Independence (July 4, 1776) written in Roman numerals. As can be seen she is using this tablet as if it was a shield, which can imply that those that do not give authority to Trump is using this event (American Independence) against Trump. Therefore, this satirical device, symbolism, is able to portray the message as Trump is attempting to give the Statue of Enlightening the World a kiss to being the new boss, Lady Liberty is refusing and is stopping in him in his path and will be another competition for Trump to

D. A. Pennebaker’s The War Room is a film about the figures behind the scenes of a political campaign. Given a subject that historically lends itself to drama and narrative tension, Pennebaker makes active choices in filming and editing to find the story within the story. The film becomes a sort of meta-art: a media narrative about the people responsible for controlling media narratives. Pennebaker approaches the film as an appreciation of fellow craftsmen, giving credit to James Carville and George Stephanopoulos’ tactical brilliance. Through the use of carefully thought-out editing, intentional camerawork, and intimate access, The War Room lays bare the hidden layers of communication present within the campaign.

According to Robert Scholes, author of “On Reading a Video Text,” media, especially television, can hold a person captive and paralyze their ability of acknowledging what’s real. Scholes wants his readers to learn how to analyze and criticize the media, to avoid believing in their ideology. Throughout Scholes’ article he teaches the readers the skill of analyzing to avoid this “power.” Scholes was able to pull this off by describing the accurate message of a twenty eight second Budweiser commercial with the techniques they input to the commercial. Americans have to start analyzing the media and the ideology they present with these three matrices: visual fascination, narrativity, and cultural reinforcement.

Executive Summary Friday Night Live is a weekly social located at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Ontario. The goal of this report is to outline a feasible marketing plan to ensure that Carrie Martin, the assistance vice-president of programs, events, and commercial services at the ROM, can achieve her attendance goal of 3,500 persons opening night and as well maximize profits from the social. With a focus on a younger demographic as ideal attendance to the event, Martin must do the following to guarantee success in future operations • Maintain admission prices • Advertise though YouTube and Pattison Outdoor • Target young working professionals • Promote consumption of mixed drinks • Introduce a unique theme FNL has seen a notable

“Saturday Night Live” (SNL) recently aired a fake movie trailer titled “God is a Boob Man” mocking Christians and as a parody to the faith-based film “God’s Not Dead 2.”

In the past year during the American Presidential Election of 2016, Americans have seen the political candidates battle it out for the presidency. It has been a hostile campaign with many heated comments. Some of the most rash, off-hand remarks have come from one candidate, the businessman and reality TV star Donald Trump. His abrasive approach and hasty backtalk has left many Americans panicking over the idea of a Trump presidency, and once devout republicans are increasingly getting cold feet. In the cartoon “Trump’s weapons of mass destruction,” illustrated by Patrick Chappatte for the New York Times, Chappatte comically illustrates a scenario which many Americans, both left and converted right, fear most: Trump, if elected, will have the power to respond to his foes by tweeting about it or nuking them. Chapette uses ironic imagery and symbols to show the unease some Americans feel that a person with the impulsiveness of a toddler might have the power to nuclear weapons.

“Public Opinion” skit from Saturday Night Live satirizes the disarray of events and misunderstandings that occur in American politics.

The fuming elephant in a black suit behind the media is a political representation of the republican party and their growing frustration for unfair treatment as far as garnering media attention. The placement of Donald Trump directly oppose to the republican party reveals that Trump is not an acceptable Republican candidate as symbolized by him being on the opposite side of the elephant. Furthermore, in the cartoon, the color choice also convey a symbolic message to the viewers. For instance, the color light violet represents inferiority and insignificance (Colour Affect). the elephant is illustrated light violet as almost as he is bruised to show how he is unable to captivate the media’s attention. The color yellow like the taxicab dominates the picture to grab the attention of the viewers and to reveal the center of the issue, which in this case is the media. Symbols are used to questions the media’s ethical stand and Donald Trump's political approach. Why is the media focused too much on Trump’s sensational tenets instead of questioning his economic plans and policies? The elephant’s displeasure and the media’s excessive coverages unrelated to politics symbolize the political tension and the media’s ethical downfall. Rather than inquiring Trump about his future plans, the mass media is more interested in Donald Trump disrespectful and misogynistic remarks. The media's improper actions represent their loss of moral integrity and their crave for more controversial statements. In Hindu culture, the sun symbolizes knowledge, truth, influence, and stability (Hinduwebsite). With this in mind, the yellow curved text bubble around the mass media resembles the sun, which implies that the media is a huge influence on the American people and that they provide

Representations of people and politics often reveal either the best or worst of our world.

Sir Charles Spencer “Charlie” Chaplin, was known as an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame during the era known as silent film, and also wrote one of the greatest speeches ever written. It is during his speech, in the movie “The Great Dictator”, released in 1941, that Chaplin gives one of the most memorable speeches that is still conversed about in the present, and has in the past year been trending on social media due to its’ undeniable relevance towards today’s social issues. As with today the turmoil over the election, our current elected president and the way social media is led to perceive the views of the Republican Party. The purpose of this speech is to convey the idea that even