In the article, "Why Democrats are hurting" author Julian E. Zelizer explains how the Democratic Party has become disconnected with America. Zelizer states that the Democrats failure to recover the poor economy has left the party and President Obama with a "conversational record and an angry electorate", This article demonstrated several terms and concepts we have discussed in class throughout the semester. For example, Zelizer's purpose for writing this article is to persuade the viewers that the Republican Party has made a remarkable recovery since the last election in 2008 while slandering the Democratic Party and pointing out all their parties issues and flaws. He then states that the Republican Party is looking forward to the 2012 election implying that they will do well. This reminded me of a few of the campaigns we explored in class and the attacks on the opposing candidates or parties. Zelizer also frames this article to visitors of CNN.com that the Democratic Party is falling apart, struggling, and "hurting". He even states that people in favor of the Republicans are framing the political media, "Conservatives have also done very well at playing the politics of the media by staying on message and framing Obama and his policies in a negative light."
http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/10/25/zelizer.democrats.woes/index.html?hpt=Sbin
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The way that reporters of this article appear to see Obama’s stance can be seen as priming. This can be seen as priming because the reporter talks about how bad Obama has done and how he has to explain how much good he has done to get Democrats in office for the midterm election. The reporter seems to be biased, not by reporting facts, but by reporting how he feels Obama has performed as our leader. Even though it appears that the reporter is being objective in most cases, he still seems to be biased when he decides to talk about all of the negative things that Obama has done and not shedding light on any positive. The fact that the reporter has not said anything positive in this story makes me feel like he does not want Obama supporters as the House of Representatives.
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