Sunday 13 November 2016

Media Bias and Ideology

In the context of our current unit 'Media Bias', this blog post includes rewriting a news article that contains bias perspectives and ideologies and implementing a different ideological standpoint. I have chosen a political article from the American news source 'The New York Times' regarding Hillary Clinton's accusation of using a private email server. Yet the author and editor of this article seems to have had a personal affectionate bias towards Hillary as an adequate candidate for presidency. The article influences the reader to acknowledge the reason for her unfortunate defeat. Considering The New York Times is a democratic newspaper there exists a bias amongst the editors in chief as they are more likely to abide by democratic ideologies in contrast to republican ideals (Donald Trump). The article used highly emotive language and almost had a persuasive pull to the diction used. The task is to rewrite this article implementing a different ideological viewpoint. To lean more towards an opposing perspective, I will impose a Republican attitude towards the content of the article.

"Hillary Clinton Claims to have Lost the Elections due to F.B.I. Director

On Saturday, F.B.I. director James B. Comey was accused of Hillary Clinton's loss in the elections by the Mrs. herself. James B. had supposedly announced and revived the inquiry into her use of a private email server, re-sparking the discussion on Mrs. Clinton's disloyalty and incapability to run a truthful presidency.

She impudently imposed guilt upon Mr. Comey to regain a trustworthy reputation to her middle-classed supporters, as she was still competing against Donald J. Trump early Wednesday. Mrs. Clinton fiercely spoke to her donors on a conference call that Mr. Comey's decision to send a letter to the Congress about the inquiry 11 days before Election Day had thrust the controversy back into the news and representing the naked truth behind Mrs. Clinton's deeds and intentions.This had supposedly prevented her from ending the campaign with an optimistic closing argument.

"There are lots of reasons why an election like this is not successful," Mrs. Clinton selectively pointed out. As she continued to persuade in despite, "our analysis is that Comey's letter raising doubts that were groundless, baseless, proven to be, stopped out momentum."

The letter from Mr. Comey which arrived two days before Election Day had a more catastrophic impact on her reputation, benefitting her opponent Donald J. Trump in his race to become President of the United States of America."

- Coco Bink

Link to article: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/13/us/politics/hillary-clinton-james-comey.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=thumb&module=a-lede-package-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
Title: "Hillary Clinton Blames F.B.I. Director for Election Loss"


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