Obama Will Not Tread: Article Analysis

No journal, magazine, or media is without bias. Unfortunately, everyone is constantly exposed different forms of media, each feeding the people their own biased through subtle omission and manipulation through word choice. To better understand this, examining articles from both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal will show the stances and bias of both journals. The first article from the New York Times, John Kerry Rushes In Where Obama Will Not Tread, is written to show the difference between Secretary of State, John Kerry, and President Obama. While the President takes very reserved actions against the extremist groups, Kerry, continues to search for other options through constant dialogue with Russia and remains optimistic and aggressive. This article portrays Obama as an optimist, but too hesitant to take action. Instead it seems to favor

The article closes with the topic of the embargo against Cuba and how Castro states and criticizes the embargo for impeding growth. The beginning of the article gives the reader a sense of friendliness and openness and seems to be in favor of the Cuba-U.S. relations and closes with the negativity of the embargo on Cuba’s growth. The third article, named Obama’s Call at U.N. to Fight ISIS With Ideas Is Largely Seen as Futile, tells about President Obama’s most recent address at the U.N. where he proposed to fight ISIS not with any military power, but with ideology. Russian president, Vladimir Putin rebuts President Obama’s speech by stating that the American push for democracy has backfired and led to only more “violence, poverty, and social disaster.” In this article, Obama is portrayed as cast aside without much consideration because of his approach to ideology rather than military