Thursday, September 4, 2008

Logos

Ever since John McCain picked Sarah Palin as his runningmate the media has done everything to destroy her credibility. The media is portraying Palin in a way the establishes her the wrong canidate for the job, the medias main aurguement stlye is logos. They are using logos by stating a long list of facts to hurt her credibility as a viable canidate. The facts make the media look credible while making Palin seem like a weak choice. Some of these facts are that Palin has only been governer of Alaska for about a year, and before that just a very small town mayor of 7,000. Palin also has never had to think about international affiars, health care, or social secruity in terms of the whole country. The media is also blasting Palin about things that have little or nothing to do with politics, like the pregnancy of her 17 year old daughter. I do believe that with all the articles and TV time spent trying to discreted Palin are a little overboard. She should be thouroghly questioned if she is going to be our next vice president, but the media is completely setting her up to fail. Most of my information came from msnbc.msn.com so i cannot credit this to just one article.

1 comment:

Shane T. said...

I completely agree that the media is setting her up to fail, but msnbc is a fairly liberal news outlet. In Palin's speech at the convention she pretty much ripped all the criticism to shame and questioned Obama's experience. I don't understand the problem with her daughter, the daughter isn't running for VP, her mom is.