Bizarrest: Article Analysis

Jen Lemos is very objective when writing in the article. Lemos sticks with the information he got and doesn’t tell much about his own opinion. There is none form of appeal in the newspaper. He writes about what Liza Kessler and Judith Mellen talks about and their opinion.

regular blogger and columnist for the New York Times. Jenny Woodson holds a A.B. in

The writer started the article straightforward with numbers and statistics. Which would have a very good impression the minute you start reading it because you would know that it is projecting claims backed with evidence. She added a rhetorical question at the beginning such as, who's right, the mom trying to prevent her children or the dad who embrace it? to then start showing the answer with a neutral perspective and supported the claims with evidence and reasoning.

To get a clear view and understanding of the book, first must review the time period in history. The book was written in the mid 1950's during the cold war. Former General McCarthy, then U.S. Senator started a fire ball of suspicion, suppression, and

During the time of the “Red Scare” McCarthy stated that he “loved to manipulate people,” (Oakley 207). He was able to “swagger” in the meeting and he knew that he could stir up “turmoil and confusion” at a moment’s notice. Once

Clay Shirky who wrote Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable (1993) argues that society doesn’t need newspapers society needs journalism to save society. Shirky supports this argument by giving a historical background to the problems newspapers face and how the problems have developed over time and the solutions society has came up with. The blogger concludes that in order for journalism to go farther new models must be created in place of past molds. Shirky directs this blog toward the current and future generations in attempt to motivate new models and methods of journalism.

Nowadays journalists have the responsibility to report facts as accurately, objectively, and disinterestedly as is humanly possible. ‘’The, honest, self-disciplined, well-trained reporter seeks to be a propagandist for nothing but the truth’’ (Casey, 1944b).

Even though McCarthy was a man of noble status, he still possessed a tragic flaw, which stemmed from his fear of losing his reelection. After an unimpressive and uneventful first term in the Senate, McCarthy was willing to take extreme measures to remain in power, so he quickly absorbed himself in false claims against those he suspected to be communists, causing nationwide hysteria and putting him directly in the spotlight. To begin his rise to fame, “On February 9, 1950, McCarthy addressed the Ohio County Women’s Republican Club in Wheeling, West Virginia. In the Wheeling speech, McCarthy played on the Cold War and Red Scare fears (fear of a communist takeover) by asserting that the communist world, particularly the Soviet Union, was in a showdown with the democratic nations led by the United States. McCarthy dramatically held up a list that he claimed contained names of U.S. State Department employees who supposedly were known members of or influenced by the Communist Party” (McCarthy, Joseph R.).

Joe McCarthy enjoyed a short reign in the spotlight of American politics in the early 1950s. His tactics, the baseless accusations of Communist ties, would come to be called McCarthyism and they set the tone of the American crusade against the ‘threat’ of Communism for years to come. The era in which the heavily anti-Communist McCarthyism reigned in America was one marked by fear, suspicion, and tightly geld ideals. Many found themselves under fire from the political witch hunts and more than one life was destroyed by the accusations brought upon it. The illegalization of the Communist movement and the misfortune that a Communist branding would cause were all unfortunate products of a fallacy filled mindset what stripped Americans of their

In the Newsweek Magazine, the October 12, 1953 issue has an article titled “U.S shifting its Diplomacy under Shadow of Red’s H-Bomb”. Media coverage during the years of Communism and McCarthyism have shown how media uses forms of writing skills and the power of language to influence audiences. Red Scare was the hysteria over the perceived threat posed by communist in the U.S as the cold war between Soviet Union and the U.S intensified. Also it was a period of time in the early 1950’s when Senator Joseph McCarthy attempted to expose suspected communists. The press presents information and their usage of writing and language skills such as selection/slanting and broadcasting of local news to benefit themselves, which does not fulfill their purpose.

McCarthy’s rule over America’s conscious was carried out with an iron fist while he served as a Republican U.S. Senator of Wisconsin from 1947-1957. He spent five years trying to single out accused communists and other left-wing loyalty risks in the United States government, thus exposing what he thought were traitors and spies that were lurking on our homeland after the post-World War II era. McCarthy’s main tactic of control during this time was fear. Suspicions and hyper attacks were common, and the fear that was instilled bordered on baseless accusations, testimony with the support of secret evidence, and partial trial

Credibility material: Since the assignment of this project, our group has been reading articles from Chicago newspapers, blogs, news stations, and government agencies.

The purpose of this investigation is to examine the question “To what extent did Joseph McCarthy and his anti- communist tactics have an impact on United States society?” I will cover how things in the society has changed. McCarthyism also affected domestic and foreign policies, but I am going to focus on American society. I will focus mainly the years around the McCarthy era which is 1950 through 1954. To help examine my topic, I will be using two books. The books are “Defining moments: McCarthyism and the Communist Threat” and “Joe McCarthy and McCarthyism: The hate that haunts America” The two sources will be valuable because they give a deep understanding of what happened during the years 1950 through 1954. This books is one of Omnigraphics “Defining Moments” books. Kevin Hillstrom, the author, has written many other books, including books about history. This also shows this source is valuable because Omnigraphics has a lot of other Defining Moment books that are about history.

Within the media, one realizes that McCarthyism not only ran down different market players in Hollywood, but was also a prominent feature of productions. Since the inception of McCarthyism, action movies will normally include a sleeper agent whose work is to infiltrate government offices and inform to enemy states on the status of the security. Although this is not a direct result of McCarthyism, media has carried over this aspect of the historical period which forms the background of the McCarthy movement

3. In “In Cold Blood”(1965), a nonfiction novel, Truman Capote accounts for the murder of the Clutter family, residing in Holcomb, Kansas, and the events that followed. The mode of development includes Gothic themes and motifs to make the audience question the roles of the protagonists and the antagonists, “Uh-huh. But you’ll have to kill me first”, said Perry to Dick when he proposed to rape Nancy Clutter; Capote also juxtaposes between different time periods to make the audience question what had really happened in the Clutter household. This work of “new-age journalism” continually asserts that Perry killed the Clutters, although scant evidence is produced. Capote’s target audience is the people who are part of the criminal justice system and psychologists. Capote is trying to prove that all people are inherently benevolent, but when they have had traumatic events occur in their past, they have injured psyches, thus attempting to explain the formerly inexplicable murders.