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The Appropriation of Mainstream News speaks on the use of television and other entertainment devices to talk about the political and social issues. It is an important part of the media today and enjoyed by millions around the world. Saturday Night Live has been around since the 70s and like any show has had its ups and downs over the years but over the years’ election season has become a popular time for the show. It allows viewers to see a new side to the news. Several newer shows have sprung up since the starting of Saturday Night Live including the Colbert Report. These shows are important because they make the younger generation more interested in the news, it can show people limited truths The author seems to have mixed feelings about …show more content…

I remember watching the SNL skits on Sarah Palin and thinking, there is no way any of this is true, no one can be that unqualified. However, the more she talked the more I realized that she should have never even been considered for the job. She failed to redeem herself despite Couric’s multiple attempts to assist her in doing so. I feel that the author brings up good points and is not biased toward Palin. I feel that the skits on SNL about Sarah Palin brought light to her lack of knowledge toward the politics and her own campaign. The American people realized that their candidate for vice president was in no way qualified for the position and this fact significantly hurt John McCain’s campaign. However, despite her ineffectiveness in her position and her naïve comments, she continues to be considered for future political positions today. One item that worries me is that there are still people who do not see the idiocy she displays on a regular basis. This is also the women who claimed to be able to see Russia from her window, should we really be putting her in any position of power. I agree with much of what the author says simply because she states all of Palin’s wrongdoings, but states them all as facts rather than opinion which in turn makes her article more believable and

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Hilary assumes everything she hears are true because she assumes jewish people are such bad people and they deserved to endure all the pain, Hilary thinks this because Brad tells her all these things about jewish people and how they are so greedy and lazy. I do not like Hilary because she jumps to conclusion about things not knowing half the story. “‘“Do you recognize all Jews as children of Satan?” “I do!”’” In this section of the story Hilary is believing Brad about what Jewish people and why they supposably are not acceptable.

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Palin, unlike Schlafly has found a middle ground between heavy social conservatism and feminism, something that has given her a lot of respect in the feminist movement. Schlafly however, has received significant criticism from prominent feminists such as Gloria Steinem who have remarked at the irony of Schlaflys positions on women staying at home to be a mother, while she herself takes on the role of political activist, lawyer, editor of a newspaper and speaker at anti-liberal

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Washington Post’s bi-weekly columnist, Kathleen Parker, writes primarily about recent events involving the subjects politics and culture. Over the course of this past summer, Kathleen Parker has written about a handful of controversial topics, including Bruce, now Caitlyn, Jenner’s sex change, the issues with the Confederate flag being flown on statehouse grounds in South Carolina, the Josh Duggar molestation scandal, and police brutality. However, as fascinating and well-written as these topics are, I found some aspects of these articles bothersome and superfluous, including her unnecessary allusion to Moby Dick in the opening line of the article Caitlyn Jenner’s Coming Out.

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Grace Tame, former Australian of the Year and sexual abuse survivor and advocate, has been represented in a variety of ways by the media, all differing depending on the respective media’s biases, purposes and perspectives. Upon collation of the different representations of Tame, an overall picture can be put together of who she truly is, how she wants people to view her and how different people may perceive her. A key example of this arises upon comparison of the articles; ‘If looks could kill’ from the Green Left organisation, and ‘Feminism’s embarrassing fall from ‘Grace’’ from The Spectator. Both of these articles are about the Grace Tame and Scott Morrison meeting which sent ripples throughout the Australian media, and have an extreme amount

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The article “South Park and the Carnivalesque” written by Alison Halsall delves into both parody and satire within the context of the program. South Park’s Carnivalesque humor, or carnival laughter “is a method by which popular culture in general, and South Park in particular, provides liberation from constraint” (Halsall 24). South Park makes it a point to use humor that provokes the inherent “dirtiness” that we contain, in an attempt to expose cultural aspects that generally go undiscussed (Halsall 34). Through profanity, South Park brings carnival humor down to the basic grotesque humor that serves to “critique linguistic sanitation” (Halsall 34).

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Sarah Palin played a controversial role in American history. There are very different opinions about her role in the political life in America. Some people think she is very intelligent women with great leadership quality. On the other side some people believe she was “clown” or had high celebrity drive. In spite those opinions Sarah Palin had played a tremendous role in women being involved in the American politics.

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Saturday Night Live (abbreviated as SNL) is an American late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title NBC 's Saturday Night. The show 's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest (who usually delivers an opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast) and features performances by a musical guest. An episode normally begins with a cold open sketch that ends with someone breaking character and proclaiming, "Live from New York, it 's Saturday Night!",

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This is important because it is talking about how the success sphere literally shows what the network wants you to see. The kids are learning not the truth but the new truth that the network wants. The kids are mistreated and are made to think that lies are the

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but it is the standard of the news world, and you can’t expect a single “news’ show to break this tend all alone, considering all the other thing it does differently, which is another reason why it is hated and loved by people, the comedy, some say it ridicules politics for no reason while the other side joust thinks it is a refreshing way to show the news, and a rather good one for people who joust entered the convoluted road to knowledge of politics, but that’s all joust how you look a

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Hillary on the other hand… not so much. A comparison and contrast between these “outstanding citizens” will show how different and alike their political

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Liberal, feminist, satirical. Only one journalist comes to mind when reading those three descriptions: Maureen Dowd. Beginning her career as a sports journalist, she has worked her way up the totem pole to achieve the status of political columnist for The New York Times. Set apart from her peers by her brutal honesty, highly-acclaimed sarcasm, and clear feminist agenda, she is able to capture her audience’s attention within the first sentences of her various publications, while leaving room for the reader to challenge and question her views. By writing about sexual misconduct on a variety of occasions, she makes clear her feminist stance, as well as her liberal political persona - all of which she portrays with great fervor.

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This is evident through the perspective of which Oprah conveys to the audience, stating rather that such issues “transcend any culture, geography, race, religion. Politics or workplace.” Thus, such ideas that Oprah explores are not limited to the confides of the film industry, and as such her speech stands as a reflection to all issues and controversies regarding global and societal mistreatment and discrimination. Oprah further emphasizes the struggles to which most women must endure so as to speak out against such controversies, with her main, yet subtle, critique directed towards the scrutiny of the mud-slinging Fake News campaign. Oprah simply states that “we all know the press is under siege these days.”

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Society expect to be constantly entertained; they have become so concerned with things such as who the latest star is dating, scandals, or dumb people doing rather idiotic things. Much of society have been consumed in their personal instant gratification and what makes them “happy”. When on an off chance that news does show things that are serious and impactful(not necessarily positive things that is happening in the world) people have become so numb that the best they could do is feel sympathetic and at worst continue on with their day. The other part of the problem is that those behind what is being published and shown on the news media have been absorbed in their avarice nature, whatever allows them to make as much profit they do. “Writing thousands of hours of coverage from what could have been summarized in a couple of minutes every few weeks, a new rhetorical strategy was developed, or-let’s be generous-evolved”(6), Saunders describes the new formula formed by mass news firms that would yield the most profit.

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Media around the world condemned for sexist Olympics coverage, an article from The Los Angeles Times, shares examples of sexist news coverage that relates to anecdotes from The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. The article condemns the Chicago Tribune for referring to a woman as the wife of a Bears lineman (Makinen). In the Joy Luck Club, Anmei-Hsu’s mother becomes as the fourth wife of Wu Tsing. Because of this, her family disowns her and Anmei’s aunt warns her that her mother is “decayed flesh, evil, rotted to the bone” (Tan 216). Anmei’s mother’s worth was determined only by her marital status.

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But the facts are true, which is great. The author is mentioned. Seems like she’s an expert. Reflection:

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