The Healthcare Bill

Tonight the hot topic on both the Ed Schultz show and Keith Olbermann's Countdown was all about the healthcare bill that was passed on Sunday night. While Keith Olbermann kept and very laid back demeanor with some assertive facial expressions towards the republicans, Schultz was very happy and excited with a constant smile on his face while making his Liberal remarks. Both of these commentators are pro Obama and 100% support the new bill that was passed. Schultz made comments like, “Americans love winners and Obama is a winner” and that “we are moving in the correct direction” to agree with the democrats who supported this bill. Keith Olbermann looked at both sides and compared them as he added his own opinion. Even though Olbermann had his own opinion on each topic, he pulled facts from historic events similar to the issues we are currently facing to support his reasoning. Olbermann does make remarks that would be disrespectful to some people, but he always remains calm and does not like to shout just to try to get his point across and when the debate. Both commentators mentioned the republicans would need 113 to prove a veto bill, and followed saying that with smirks that a veto would be unlikely come November of this year.
Olbermann’s show only had a few guests come on, but the people who did comment all represented different sides of the debate while The Ed Show had an abundance of guest appear but all had one general opinion. Olbermann showed a brief clip from McCain while he shared his point of view saying “we” are going to repeal this. Versus James Clyburn which stated he believed the bill is already signed sealed and delivered. Also other popular political commentators that were featured included, Laurence O’Donnell, David Frum on the Olbermann countdown and Howard Dean, Steve McMahon, Ron Christie, and Jennifer Donahue where briefly asked their opinions on the current events on The Ed Show. Congressman George Miller from San Francisco showed his support by commenting “This legislation will create jobs”. The Ed Show only revealed the strong commentary of all democrats that were for Obama creating the change he’s promising and for the healthcare bill. This was very onesided to only show one point of view.
Besides the healthcare reform, sports, the NCAA tournament, gay slurs, and racist remarks toward politicians occurring from the past week were all briefly reviewed. Steven A. Smith a radio show host was a guest on Schultz’s show and admits there are two sides Tiger Woods’ story, and states “he’s the best in the world he’ll make the cut”. Ed Schultz uses the emotional route to persuade viewers to engage in his opinion, “We are more about saving lives so people do not die”. Both Ed Schultz and Keith Olbermann are standing in belief that the healthcare bill will succeed. The bill is about morality isn’t it? The Ed Show post a text vote that asked viewers “Did the passage of the health bill renew your faith in president Obama’s leadership”, 91% said yes and 9% said no. I believe this only represents the type of viewer watching these commentaries. The Democrats are going to watch these two because they back up their opinion and believe the same opinions, suggestions, and comments. These shows are truly biased.

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The Reality Of Reality Television

Reality TV that we know started back in 1992 when MTV first broadcasted The Real World. It was an experimental show that took seven people from different backgrounds and placed them in a house to live together for several months and have their interactions filmed. An experiment? So this was a social experiment. The Real World can demonstrate to young adults what can a lifestyle like that can result in, both positives and negatives; I think the viewers can ask themselves the question of “would I really want to be in that situation?” If a young viewer is capable to ask themselves that question, it is only a yes or no answer. The audience can ether chose to mock the behavior or go against it. Some people even find the shows offensive. The Jersey Shore was commented on as being offensive towards Italians. It was so offensive that there are endless articles all over the internet about it. This show specifically generated media hype. Some company’s refused to have a part in The Jersey shore and ones like Domino’s Pizza and American Family Insurance pulled their ads from the show. Italian-American advocacy groups called for a boycott. http://www.straight.com/article-276705/vancouver/mtvs-jersey-shore-offensive-italians.
The individuals on reality TV are exaggerated to the tenth degree. But even the most common person in real life can be known to be dramatic and “fake”. So what’s the difference here? It draws attention to the person who is creating their abstract image. That is what they want because they went and auditioned for the show. They are instantly famous for being the one person on the show that does the most unheard of outrageous thing in that episode. Also, recently there have been cast members from Jersey Shore coming to Baltimore clubs. People really wanted to meet them in real life wasn’t the show enough. Now there over paying to get in a club just because they know they’re going to be their? What a way to make money.
Most people today would tell you that reality shows are harmless and that the television networks promote them because they draw ratings and advertising dollars. No matter what they are putting on TV it still will always influence whoever is sitting on the other side of that screen, the younger viewers especially. As long as there are people there are going to be reality TV shows. TV is a form of entertainment and for some these shows are laughing entertaining.

The Dundalk Eagle Will Rise Above All!

If papers provide readers with news they can trust, they will always continue to be circulated. The Dundalk Eagle will specifically always survive. People look for local information more often than broad events. The Dundalk Eagle offers in depth reporting, comprehensive commentary and coverage on local school news, sports and recreation, the community calendar, classifieds, and much more. The audience is directly set to satisfy the readers of the local community. I interviewed a former editor of the Dundalk Eagle, Ann Booker which commented, "The reporters goal is to try to write objectively." For a long time The Dundalk Eagle was 25 cents, but just recently was raised to 50 cents. This price increase will most likely will have no impact at all on the number of people who purchase this paper. The quality of writing within this paper is outstanding. The writers have proven themselves to be very talented by winning many awards. Bill Gates, a writer who specializes in sports and recreation articles has especially won many awards for his intriguing columns.
SYDNEY Global media magnate Rupert Murdoch says doomsayers who are predicting the Internet will kill off newspapers are "misguided cynics" who fail to grasp that the online world is potentially a huge new market of information-hungry consumers. He said people now were "hungrier for information that ever before" and that papers have an edge over bloggers and other newcomers because they are more trusted by readers.
People buy this newspaper to stay connected and find out what's going on in their neighborhood with their family, friends, and sports teams. The huge advantage here is that this paper is community oriented. For example, the Dundalk Eagle will only print the people that are from Dundalk in the obituaries. Also, there is a section that posts pictures of people who took a picture with the Eagle while vacationing. This strongly encourages the reader to feel a sense of community and belonging. Ann Booker states, "Dundalk is a parochial community." They are a certain group of people that share many common interest and they are generally all in the same social class.
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