Thursday, October 11, 2007

HW 18 "Rubbish Journalism"

Upon investigating the Wonkette page i ran across mostly articles that I was indifferent to or that I agreed with. Then I ran upon an article that seemed to be just a sad form of negative propaganda. The article was called "Obama Targets 17 Yr Old Girls in Iowa" the link is http://wonkette.com/politics/obama.s-underage-harem-dept%27/obama-targets-17+year+old-girls-in-iowa-309163.php. Let us go under the illusion that i momentarily forgot the voting age in America, why is Obama talking to all these young girls? Oh, thats right the voting age in America is 18, how absurd for a presidential candidate to target the demographic of soon to be voters. It is nothing other than a good campaign strategy. Image for a moment if he had targeted an adult audiance in Iowa or another midwestern state. These states are so full of Evangeslists and rascism that it would have been a joke and a waste of his time to try and converse with them. On the site there is a picture of Obama standing in front of a large gathering young people, the majority being women. What the article fails to mention is that roughly 40% of the group is boys, and he is merely shaking their hands. Why, that seems like a quite common campaign procedure to me. "Perhaps not satisfied with wife Michelle anymore, Barack Obama has been wooing and cooing 17-year-olds in Iowa." This quote is something I'd fully expect to see on Fox news or a Tabloid. Rubbish journalism without any investigation.

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