The Washington Post Essays

  • Media Coverage From The Washington Post And New York Times

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    account of being passionate about women’s rights, my topic is birth control and how it is portrayed and represented in different media sources that have liberal and conservative views and beliefs, I followed this topic by tracking coverage from the Washington Post and New York Times. Before I started

  • Essay On The Washington Post

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    “Well, if we live in a world where the government could tell us what we can and cannot print, then The Washington Post as we know it has already ceased to exist.” Tom Hanks as the character of Ben Bradlee states in the 2018 film The Post. He was conveying the belief that if the government won the court case, The Washington Post would no longer exist. The film, The Post, directed by Steven Spielberg, is an entertaining, yet effective way of learning the now quiet topic of rebelling in order to save

  • Washington Post Summary

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    Raghavan, an editor for the Washington Post presents the thriving business of immigrant smuggling in the heart of Libya`s cities. The author uses images to portray the true picture of the dentations camps. He employs ethos and Paros to illustrate the emotional and ethical issues not accounted for. While he notes the efforts made by the E.U in eradicate the situation, the author clearly states his stand .He states that, much should be done .He also reflects on how hard and dangerous the journey through

  • Corruption, Deception, Watergate

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    Journalism proved to be a valuable tool in the fight to reveal the hidden secrets of Watergate. One newspaper in particular, “The Washington Post,” dug up important and necessary dirt on the those involved in Watergate. Two young journalists working for “The Washington Post,” Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, were assigned to the Watergate case (Kilian 28). The efforts of these two men provided a significant lead into the investigation of the scandal. The two spent much of their time working on the

  • History Of Journalism And Bob Woodward

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    History of Journalism and Bob Woodward Journalism is a discipline of collecting, analyzing, verifying, and presenting news regarding current events, trends, issues and people. The certain individuals who practice journalism are called journalists. Journalism's main goal in reporting events is to state who, what, when, where, why, and how, and to explain the significance of all. There are two main types of journalism which are print journalism and also broadcast journalism. Print journalism

  • All The President's Men Essay

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    Woodward and Bernstein’s investigation isn’t taken very seriously because they weren’t established reporters. The two seem to be working against all of Washington. No one wants to be quoted by, or even talk to the low-level reporters. They get the sense throughout the movie that someone was working against their best efforts to get to the truth. The reporters saw a huge disconnect between what the Committee

  • Who is smarter boys or girls

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    A common controversial topic is the debatable question – who is smarter men or women? This question has been roaming around for a while with numerous scientific researches attempting to come up with an answer. The question is still left unanswered. However, in today’s society, it’s been proven that women are more successful in education than men. In this modern age where education is the gateway to success, women have surpassed men in academic assessment scores. Girls have “outperformed boys by 0

  • Rhetorical analysis of Michael Gerson's article

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    those of us who believe in the ideology of pro-life. Though Mr. Gerson is an experienced and seasoned bureaucrat and has also served on advisory committees for the President of the United States, the article under analysis here published by the Washington Post has many rhetorical elements to capture and engage the reader. Rhetorical elements of ethos, pathos and logos are clearly used in this article. We shall now document the occurrence and of such statements by through extracts from the article .

  • Cuba's Island Of Broken Dreams Summary

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    Nick Miroff is the Washington Post’s Latin America correspondent. He is not assigned to one particular country. In fact, when I began the research for this paper, he had stories from more than five Latin American countries. Miroff attended the University of California at Santa Cruz for his undergraduate degree, where he majored in Spanish and Latin American Literature. For his Master’s degree, he attended the University of California at Berkley’s Graduate School of Journalism, where he graduated

  • Donald Trump's Border Wall Essay

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    interview with MSNBC, Trump upped his estimate of the cost: ‘The wall is going to cost a fraction of that [trade deficit with Mexico], maybe $10 billion or $12 billion, and it’s going to be a real wall.” We still believe that figure is not credible” (Washington Post, 11 Feb 2016). Only time will tell if and when the wall will be

  • Jeff Bezos and Amazon.com

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    "For Jeff Bezos, a new frontier"The Washington Post Retrieved August 10, 2013 "Jeff Bezos pronounces his name" The Washington Post 2009 Retrieved 17 August 2013 "Jeff Bezos: Online Commerce Pioneer" TED Retrieved August 5, 2013Web Feb, 13 2014 Demery, Paul (January 14, 2013) "Bezos: 'I never expected this'" Internet Retailer Retrieved August 5, 2013 Farhi, Paul (August 5, 2013) "Washington Post to be sold to Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon" The Washington Post Retrieved August 13, 2013 Hof, Robert

  • House of Cards

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    will act. Who will do what no one else has the courage to do. The unpleasant thing. The necessary thing” (Script: reddit.com). Through persuasion, manipulation and down right corrupt politics, House of Cards displays a unique spin on the world in Washington, one that some may believe not to be far from the truth. In the opening scene the writers of this script want to first capture your attention, and make you want to like their main character. By giving you insight to the type of per-son Francis Underwood

  • An Interview with a Video Gamer

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    creativity. “Nevertheless,” he says, “my best memories lie with video games.” As his fellow co-workers claim, he’s the ultimate nerd. Wong is conscious of those stereotypes. He knows it’s unpopular to be a nerd—described by Rachel Hartigan Shea of the Washington Post as, “Clad in too-short, too-tight pants, armed with a pocket protector, glasses firmly taped together and pimples unpopped” (1). Wong responds to these assumptions with proud confidence, “Everyone is different.” According to him, passion for

  • Katherine Graham Case Summary

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    1. What were the critical strategic decisions made at the Washington Post during Katharine Graham’s tenure as President, CEO, and Chairman of the Board? The most critical decision was the one to pursue journalistic integrity as a strategy for achieving a sustainable newspaper. It does not logically follow that if one were to release a news publication, particularly a publication in Washington, D.C., that it should necessarily choose to follow a policy of antagonism toward the White House. As this

  • All The President's Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward

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    The book I chose to read for this assignment was All the President's Men, by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward. The book was about the biographical accounts of two Washington Post reporters and of how their investigative journalism played a major role in solving one of the largest political scandals in American history. Me being a history buff was happy that the book was on the list of selective readings that we could choose for this assignment and before even reading a page was most certain that

  • All the President’s Men

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    writer William Goldman, who took the audience on a trip into the world of investigative reporting. In world where you are only as good as the next headline, Bob Woodward played by Robert Redford is an inexperienced journalist working for the Washington Post, who was selected to take on a burglary story pertaining to the five men caught at the Water Gate complex. Bob Woodward arrives at a local courthouse where the five men are standing trial, while going into his routine in seeking core information

  • The Omnivore's Dilemmas By Michael Pollan

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    Omnivore’s Dilemma “What should we have for dinner?” (Pollan 1). Michael Pollan, in his book The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals shows how omnivores, humans, are faced with a wide variety of food choices, therefore resulting in a dilemma. Pollan shows how with new technology and food advancement the choice has become harder because all these foods are available at all times of the year. Pollan portrays to his audience this problem by following food from the food chain, to industrial

  • All the President's Men Movie

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    Film Review: All President’s Men In June 1972, five burglars broke into Watergate complex, and were arrested on the spot. A reporter of Washington Post, Bob Woodward, starts an investigation to write a story and later is joined by another journalist, Carl Bernstein. In the process, they find out that the break-in leads much higher to H.R. Haldeman, “second most important person in the country” (after President Nixon). During their investigation, the two reporters used various techniques to get information

  • Bob Woodward

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    Bob Woodward is an award-winning investigative journalist perhaps best known for his work with Carl Bernstein in the investigation of the Watergate scandal and a series of articles for which The Washington Post won a Pulitzer Prize ("Bob Woodward," n.d.). Woodward is also a renowned author of fifteen non-fiction books; eleven of the fifteen have become number one best sellers, the highest of any contemporary author ("Full Biography," n.d.). The New York Times has even gone so far as to call Woodward

  • An Evaluation of the Article: Why Looks Are the Last Bastion of Discrimination

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    Prohibited Practices. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. 30 Mar. 2014 . Rhodes, Deborah L. "Why looks are the last bastion of discrimination." Washington Post. 23 May 2010. The Washington Post. 26 Mar. 2014 . Thompson, Krissah. "Michelle Obama invokes U.S. civil rights movement in China visit." Washington Post. 24 Mar. 2014. The Washington Post. 25 Mar. 2014 .