Jason Satnley's Article About The Power Words

This source comes from Jason Satnley’s article about the power words have and how they can be used to silence people and the truth. Stanley mainly covers the topic of political silencing which is the way politicians use words to silence their opponents or also to silence any of rumors that my be flying around that politician. There is also what he describes as speech acts and how we take part in this every time we speak. He gives the example from Catharine MacKinnon and her article on how pornography silences women. That we have turn a woman’s speech act of saying “no” to mean something else in the world of pornography. He also gives the example of how silencing is not limited to a person and how big news companies say they give both sides