Standing Ovation: Terrorizing Media

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Terrorizing Media

The transformation in media technology has also altered government communications strategy. “The biggest White House press frustration is that nothing can drive a news cycle anymore….In the old days, you could say, We’d like October to be about the environment…Today, a vicious news cycle swallows most White House Strategies”

This was said Mark McKinnon, the media adviser. As an example, he explained that when the Berlin Wall went up, in 1961, no one pressed hard for a reaction because President Kennedy was on vacation. Now, if Obama was to have an emergency while on vacation, he would have only 3 seconds and would be highly criticized for having someone else make a decision for him. To me this means the president would be punished for the one time he is allowed to be out with his family and take a break from all the stressful things that he has to put up with. It doesn’t seem fair. The media should back off and cut the poor guy some slack. As long as the issue has been taken care by someone, it shouldn't matter and the president should not have to be humiliated for it. The media is very well in charge of making people look bad and it is especially bad when the one person they are making look bad is the one person who is in charge of this country.

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Welcome to our Eng 100 Blog “Standing Ovation”! The title of this blog refers to the audience of active readers we are creating by sharing our academic writing for Eng 100 with a larger group of students, instructors, academics, and just about anybody who chooses to follow our blog! When you write and post your reader responses here (and, later, as you write your essays for the course), I encourage you to use this audience to conceptualize who you are writing for and, most important, how to communicate your ideas so that this group of academic readers and writers can easily follow your line of thinking. Think about it this way: What do you need to explain and articulate in order for the other bloggers to understand your response to the essays we’ve read in class? What does your audience need to know about those essays and the authors who wrote them? And how can you show your readers, in writing, which ideas you add to these “conversations” that take place in the texts we study?
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