Sound of Sunday

After looking around on CNN.com I came across a very interesting article that entailed several intriguing and memorable quotes from CNN's Sunday morning show. I found this article important and wanted to write about it for today's blog for many reasons. For one, timeliness, conflict, and prominence are terms that we have discussed and learned in class and this article presents all of them. The timeliness of this article is relevant and is current to what is going on in American politics today. Conflict is another term we have discussed that can be found in this article. The problem or conflict that is occurring in today's politics and is discussed in this article is the issue of President Obama's health care plan, and the major problem of unemployment in America today. And prominence is another term presented in the article because the issues that are discussed are extremely significant to the United States government and all of its citizens. These issues are completely political and should be discussed for citizens to see. This article also uses the mass media perspective of political communication through agenda setting. Author discusses what President Obama's plans are for solving these issues, and states what some think of his agenda. "When you hear the president say things like, you know, 'we did a poor job of explaining what we were trying to do', I think that's indicative of his not getting it, because the voters have had enough of the Obama agenda" (Republican Whip Eric Cantor, "Fox News Sunday").

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/11/07/sunday.sound/index.html?hpt=Sbin