There are similarities and differences in how the authors of “American History” and “ TV Coverage of JFK’s Death Forged Mediums’ Role” use Kennedy’s assassination in their writing. The intended effect of “American History” was to entertain and show how TV news and news in general affects people. In contrast the intended effect of “Tv Coverage…” was to inform readers how John F. Kennedy's assassination affected the news. The author Joanne Ostrow and Judith Ortiz Cofer both use Kennedy’s assassination in their writing to explain how TV news affects people in a community. In “American History” Cofer shows how TV affects Mr. DePalma and Elena’s mother. Mr. DePalma was known as a tough teacher, “Muscular Man” but seeing John F. Kennedy’s assassination on TV affected him during school. Most kids thought it was very strange for Mr. DePalma to cry, “Mr. DePalma to our complete …show more content…
Cofer intended for readers to empathize with the main character, Elena. Elena heads over Eugene’s house on the day that John F. Kennedy was assassinated to study. The reader feels bad when Eugene’s mother doesn’t let Elena come in. “ I couldn’t move. I just stood there in shock at hearing these things said to me in such a honey-drenched voice.” Cofer might have used an historical event in a fictional piece because she had personal connections with the event. During the time period of John F. Kennedy’s assassination Cofer was eleven years old and lived in an apartment building in New Jersey called El Building just like Elena, “ A little scared I headed for El Building”. Another reason she may have used a historical event to make the historical event more entertaining. In Ostrow’s piece she intended for readers to think about how TV Coverage of John F. Kennedy’s assassination changed news. She made readers think by putting shocking information. “90 percent of homes with TVs watched the JFK assassination coverage that
O'Reilly, Bill, and Martin Dugard. Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever. New York: Henry Holt and, 2011. Print.
In the story “American History”, by Judith Ortiz Cofer, the setting takes place on a cold gray November day in Paterson, New Jersey as described by the narrator. The narrator is a 14 year old 9th grader named Elena who is Puerto Rican. Elena lives in a melting pot tenement called, “El Building”. Music is constantly playing in this building and joy is always trying to be spread. Elena goes to Public School 13 and she highly dislikes the environment in her school. On the day John F. Kennedy was shot, her city changed in an interesting way.
The media can distort, delete, emphasize and de-emphasize points at will. Jackson gives credit to the media for inflicting determination in the African American public by the picture illustrated in the essay. Jackson believes that the media has more control than the law making politicians and the police. He considers what the media does affects everyone’s opinion.
In the short story "American History" by Judith Ortiz Cofer, different classes, the fact that Elena and Eugene are both shy, and an overpopulated school help contribute to the fact that Elena and Eugene cannot be together. First, Eugene and Elena are in different classes at school. This is shown when the narrator tells the readers that "...Eugene was in honors classes for all his subjects, classes that were not open to me [Elena] because English was not my first language, though I was a straight-A- student" (165). English is not Elena’s first language, she is Puerto Rican, which means that she is not allowed to take higher level classes, even though she gets straight A's and is a very good student. If she were allowed to take the classes,
In “Wires and Lights in a Box,” the author, Edward R. Murrow, is delivering a speech on October 15, 1958, to attendees of the Radio-Television News Directors Association. In his speech, Murrow addresses how it is his desire and duty to tell his audience what is happening to radio and television. Murrow talks about how television insulates people from the realities in the world, how the television industry is focused on profits rather than delivering the news to the public, and how television and radio can teach, illuminate, and inspire.
[2] My analysis primarily focuses on Stone’s film Nixon, but it is noteworthy to mention JFK, since both films were embroiled in heated debates regarding historical authenticity and artistic license. In JFK, Stone pieces together several conspiracy theories as to who was responsible for President Kennedy’s assassination from “real” primary texts, news footage, ear and eye witnesses, and the Zapruder film, among others. In Nixon, Stone uses similar techniques to posit equally troubling theses: the first that Nixon, while Vice President, was involved in a plot to assassinate Fidel Castro, and, second, that Nixon was directly or inadvertently responsible for the deaths of John and Robert Kennedy. Stone elects to create scenes and embellish information but defends his mixing of fact and speculation: “Of course, there’s license and speculation, but they are based on reasonable assumptions which we’ve discussed with highly reliable technical advisers who lived through the history we’re recounting in the film” (Monsel 206).
This story is based around the awful day of John F. Kennedy's death.The adults turn to religion in their time of sorrow over the death of the president. Neighbors console one another, and they meet at the church to pray together. Their problems are put to the side as they contemplate what this loss might mean to the president's family, to the nation, and to them. However, the humiliation that Elena has endured because of Eugene's mother's prejudice seems minor, at least in the minds of the people around Elena. Of course, Elena might disagree.
Edward R. Murrow’s profound impact on the field of journalism defines much of what the modern news media industry is today. Edward R. Murrow’s career offers aspiring journalist a detailed set of standards and moral codes in how a journalist should receive and report the news. The development of CBS is largely attributed to Murrow, and derives from his ambitious attitude in utilizing the television and radio to deliver the news. Murrow gained a stellar reputation in the minds of American’s during WWII by placing himself in the heart of the war, and delivering information through radio in his famous This is London broadcasts. His battles with Senator Joseph McCarthy are largely referred to as his most prominent achievement in which Murrow exposed the unfair practices of Senator McCarthy in his wild accusations on those in the American public of being affiliated with communism. At the RTNDA conference Murrow arguably deliver his most famous speech, which included his hopes and fears of the news media industry in years to come. Although much of today’s news media industry would be held in disdain in the mind of Murrow his practices are still referred due and held in high regard by his contemporaries and fellow aspiring journalist. Edward R. Murrow set the standard of American journalism, and had the largest individual impact on the news media industry in history.
The film All the President's Men told the story of two reporters from the newspaper, The Washington Post, who uncovered and exposed the Watergate Scandal of 1972. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein took risks during the investigation, but both did impeccable jobs in exposing the truth behind Watergate - that President Richard Nixon's association was involved. The story led to public outrage, and eventually caused President Nixon to be the first president in the history of the United States to resign from office. The film expressed many aspects we studied in News Literacy this semester. A few of things we studied include an editor's role in choosing which stories to publish and news drivers, the verification process,
During the early 1900’s and late 1800’s precipitated the first true form of American media. The daily newspapers have been a part of the United States for some time, but during 1880’s and 1890’s reports such as Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst began to transform the newspaper in order for it to become the first major stepping stone in mass media. These publishers, especially Hearst, took advantage of the American involvement in foreign affairs. Hearst convinced his audience that sinking of a U.S ship during the Spanish-American War obliged a military response. Although Hearst was not the initial cause of the war, there was proof that he had the power to distort information, images and options. By World War 1, the media involvement increase by a tremendous amount.
One of the greatest exports of American culture is American media. American media is one of the most widely distributed and consumed cultural forms from the United States. This means that not only do Americans consume large quantities of their own media, but many other countries in the world consume American media, too. People in other countries will not interpret or understand the media in precisely the same ways that Americans will and do, nonetheless, many aspects of American culture and American reality are communicated to numerous viewers as part of the content in the media. The media is an important tool in the discussion of race, class, and gender in America. It takes a savvy viewer to discriminate between and understand what media accurately represents reality, what media does not, or which aspects of experience are fictionalized, and which elements ...
America has come a long way with how people are treated as opposed to how things use to be not so long ago. In the film American History X (1998) we see how some parts of America were not adjusting to change in their towns which resulted in violent outbreaks and many deaths. Although throughout the movie we see the main character, Derek Vinyard (Edward Norton) that at the beginning of the film is in a “white power” gang and later transforms as a character to protect his brother and the rest of his family from being hurt and corrupted by the racist world that they were living in.
Many exaggerations were made in The Truman Show, however, they effectively showed how the media can create such a big impact into actually being able to alter the course of ones life. Just as Truman’s life was fabricated, from the staged events in his life to the paid actors who pretended to be his friends, the TV shows and news we watch can appear to be truthful, but can sometimes be misleading. The Truman Show suggests that media can have negative effects on people, as it can sometimes persuade people into doing things that they otherwise would not have done without the influence of media, such as purchasing a certain brand of clothing or even taking a certain side on an important political
The year 1960 is significant in American history for a variety of reasons. It was the year in which John F. Kennedy was elected as president, a national campaign for Civil Rights lit on fire the emotions of many, and the year that the United States flag was completed upon the addition of the fiftieth star. In the center of the buzz of this revolutionary year was American journalists, the heart and soul of communication. Journalists in this decade were faced with the extraordinary challenge of informing citizens of current events, all of the while relying on reliable sources to avoid falsities and over exaggeration, yet still serving the most riveting information. To ensure the success of journalists, American journalist and politician, Clare
The positive impact can include educational information and knowledge on certain ideas, policies, laws, or even the current events. The negative impact can impair or damage the reputation of a person, or institution or an organization based on impression. Since the impact of the media can be dictated by the content it is aired or published, this was utilized during the cold war to enhance the campaign of socialism or communism and capitalism or democracy. Further, this essay will investigate the effects of media during the Cold War on the use of television, newspapers and radio broadcasts in Russia and America. After the end of World War Two, the cold war began with Russia and America airing several propaganda with the use of the three different media such as radio, newspaper and television.