In the article from Teen Vogue, Sean Spicer's Emmy 2017 Cameo Is What Norminalization Looks Like, informs the reader about how Sean Spicer’s appearance at the Emmys was a bad idea as what he did and the lies he told were justified as a joke and forgotten. The claim that the speaker is making is that we as people try to “Normalize” the situation that Sean Spicer created and controversy while being the White House Press Secretary. This is the author’s main claim because in her article, she goes into depth about normalization and how we as a society use it on people who once we found to be unbearable to embrace into the spotlight once more. In the article there was something that was not mentioned in the piece that can add credibility to this …show more content…
He thought, and others on Twitter, that it was an outrage that people were condemning him by society to laugh off and make jokes about himself, that sparked controversy before. The author’s main claim is that the Emmys shouldn't have brought Sean Spicer and become a Twitter moment online. That people shouldn't used people who were part of the presidency to be a gag and invite them to special events, even though they were once considered intolerable. This is the author’s main claim because him as a viewer didn’t appreciate the non needed cameo of Sean Spicer as he thought people were being too forgiving after he promoted actions by Trump to then throw him under the bus. In the article there was something that was not mentioned in the piece that can add credibility to this argument/stance is that how previous White House Press Secretaries or any other part of the Republican party who have renounced their post seem to make appearances more often than people who have not done much wrong. For example, Omarosa who “quit” for personal reasons from her job as a White House liaison, is now seen on the Television show Big Brother, after not being known what she did in the White House only to give intel about what goes on inside there. However, compared to Hillary Clinton most people can’t stand her
On August 17, 1998, exactly one year after making the statement above, President Bill Clinton prepared to deliver a speech concerning a scandal that had gripped the nation for months. It is needless to say that this was an important moment during the Clinton administration. After accusations of sexual harassment, Clinton addressed the nation and admitted to having a relationship with Monica Lewinsky. In this critical speech Clinton set out to admit to wrong-doings, provide a few reasons for his action, and ultimately persuade the audience into moving on and forgetting the scandal. This essay will break down his speech into sections and examine the most and least effective strategies that Clinton employed and how well he executed those strategies. This is an interesting speech given under rare circumstances. Not since Watergate had an American president been under such harsh moral criticism from the public. By looking critically at this speech we are able to gain valuable insight into Clinton's motives.
What has changed in the media and political culture? Why is exploitation of sex and politics on front burner of the American agenda? The private matters of the President were once just that — private matters. Now they are published and are accessible to the American public by way of the Starr Report (http://CNN.com/starr.report/)and the mainstream media. The impeachment of the President symbolizes the pinnacle of the integration of sex and politics by the media.
As highlighted by the author, Mary Louise Adams in her article, “Excerpts from The Trouble with Normal”, ‘a norm’ “can be defined as something that is usual, typical or standardized” (Hacking, Adams, 2003). Norms are often already so established that most individuals do not realize how much they have shaped society and the people who live in it. Audrey Lord tells us that being a “White, thin, young, heterosexual, Christian, male” defines the characteristics of being “normal” and “privileged,” in which she calls “the mythical norm” (Perry, 2011). We use our sexuality, race and class as a way of giving ourselves an identity for the world to see. This identity will ultimately allow us to understand our place in the world and give
Someone’s mistakes can easily be debuted online, making the levels of public shame go beyond its limits. In Source C, “Is the Internet a Mob without Consequence?”, there is an article about an adult who got a massive amount of hate for an inappropriate tweet. In the document, the adult named Ms. Sacco received intense reactions and consequences: “Yet as soon as it was clear that she had made similar comments in the past, the Internet turned into a voracious and vengeful mob. Ms. Sacco was tried and judged guilty in a public square of millions and soon attacked in a way that seemed worse than her original statement. Within hours, people threatened to rape, shoot, kill, and torture her.” (Bilton 9-13). With the negative feedback, the lady realized her tweet was an awful mistake; however, when dealing with the internet, there is no “deleting” mistakes. Also, being shamed to the extent of having millions watch her in a public square and then threaten to do so many wrong actions like killing is just brutality wrong. The responses following the tweet are in fact far more disgusting than the single tweet posted which started the entire breakout. Furthermore, with the rise of social media, Monica Lewinsky also had her fair share in being harassed and humiliated online. Monica shares with the audience, “But the attention and judgement that I received, not the
As Bill Clinton name was being mention “Clinton goes on national TV to admit he had an inappropriate relationship with Monica Lewinsky” (CNN). This quote showed that Clinton realizes that he had to say the truth of what happened between them since he would always be denying that they had no relationship. This was the first step that Clinton had to do, to be sincere of what happened between them and later apologize for his bad conduct he had with Lewinsky, since he was having a relationship with Hillary Clinton. He mentions that “It is important to me that everybody who was been hurt know the sorrow I feel is genuine… Monica Lewinsky” (The History Place). This quote shows that he is feeling bad for what he had done to Monica and ask her if he could be forgiven due to the bad actions he had done to her that cause pain to her in the heart and that he was unfaithful to his wife Hillary Clinton that cause her pain as well as he did it to
American culture is filled with stereotypes that puts out false message about gender roles. These derogatory roles puts images out about the cultural views held about certain positions dominated by men. What was originally created for encouraging consumerism is now being used to promoted mass media productions. The negative connotations produced by mass media portrays nega...
The whitewash days of the Kennedy period were over. The press was willing to examine and cross-examine. This was a significant departure from the mentality of the press the day Kennedy was assassinated and his alleged assassin incredibly unprotected and gunned down two days later. The country had changed significantly by the early seventies. The passive public was not quite so willing to be blindly led anymore. The press was now activist in nature. Archilbald Cox stated "the Watergate experience is the convincing evidence… of the ability of the American people to come together in times when abuses of political power appear and threaten our political system." The people were not willing to accept without question the proclamations of presidential press secretaries. In the process, the peoples' self-image had to change. They matured and of course were willing to challenge authority. This is something that was unheard of in the 1950's. The effect on our political institutions was dramatic...
Trump has had a remarkable impact on social media and in result that has helped build the reputation he has today as well as the popular stance he had all before becoming president. His influence on media began when he became the executive producer and host of The Apprentice. Within the 14 seasons as host, Trump had accumulated north of 200 million dollars, aside from how much he was making from his other businesses (wiki 1). Throughout his acting career he has also appeared in 12 films and 14 television shows as a cameo and earned himself a Star on the Walk of Fame ( the life history
For an example of the authors use of specific examples while describing what the media decides as news worthy the author writes, “The public rarely hears about the routine ceremonies at state dinners, but when President George Bush threw up all over the Japanese prime minister in 1992, the world’s media jumped on the story” (Edwards, Wattenberg, Lineberry, 2015, p. 398). This is an indication of how the media decides what is newsworthy. This quote demonstrates some of the strengths of the article because, not only does the quote support how the media decides what is news worthy, but it also shows no bias and is a factual, specific example. Another quote that demonstrates the strengths of the article is “Journalists and politicians have a symbiotic relationship, with politicians relying on journalists to get their message out and journalists relying on politicians to keep them in the know”. (p.400). this quote demonstrates the strengths of the article because, it shows how the media gets its news, how politicians gains their influence, and shows no bias. One last quote that emphasizes the strengths of this excerpt is “The media can even have a dramatic effect on how the public evaluates specific events by emphasizing one event over others. When during a 1976 presidential debate, President Ford incorrectly stated that the Soviet Union did
With this newfound distrust, the media became extremely vigilant about reporting on anything that occurred in politics that would be of any interest to anyone and has played a deciding factor in the success and the failure of different political figures. An example of this would be President Bill Clinton's affair. Such extensive coverage of this public embarrassment was blown out of proportion relative to the size of other scandals of the past century that absorbed less media attention.
With a devastatingly crucial issue such as women being shunned by the media, it’s not okay to have the ideas of other people in your work. In the article, “Controversial Hillary Cover of Time Illuminates Sexism in the Media” by Marianne Schnall, implies that the media is negatively affecting the chances of women becoming successful with all the sexism it is portraying. Marianne Schnall is a published writer and professional interviewer with many influential credentials that she is not afraid to use. In addition, this article's overall effectiveness was not what I was expecting. The article was overwhelming because of all the people she mentioned and then she tried elaborating what they all said after each interview!
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, however what is considered beautiful by some is not considered as beauty when discussing diversity within the media. Society is based on criticism of judging one’s characters body, shape and or race/ethnics background. In the media the society only sees one type that is only focused on perfection to the mind; however within the United States, it is very typical in that the media lacks ethnic representation, cultural identity and gender inequalities. There are no ethnic representation when it comes to the media world and that the media has been trained to believe that the ethnic groups are not valuable. African Americans and Hispanics writers are the minority group when it comes to a social group. According to journalist Prince and Television critic Deggans “CNN , let go one of its most high-profile anchor of color, Soledad O’Brien, replaced her with a white man, Chris Cuomo. Wolf Blitzer gave up one of his hours to another white man, Tapper. Though Zucker met with both National Association of Black Journalists and the National Association of Hispanic Journalist to try and address their concerns, there has been no overt sign from CNN that it is bringing on any more anchors of color, ”(Mirkinson p.1).
One clear example would be how differently President Kennedy’s and President Clinton’s affairs were exposed. During the time Kennedy was president there wasn’t any of this social media so everything was kept in silence. It wasn’t after his death in 1963, that different biographers started to surface the rumors about his extra marital affairs. A historian dedicated specifically to research the sexual behaviors of US Presidents, Robert P. Watson, claimed Kennedy’s affairs were the stuff of legends. Moreover, according to the same article “The Sex Life of JFK” printed in October 23, 2013 by Patrick J. Kieger from the National Geographic, Kennedy biographer Robert Dallek talks about him as a “compulsive womanizer.”. On the other hand, fast forward to January 17th,1998, where the Drudge Report first breaks the story about the worst sex scandal in the history of the White House, President Clinton’s affair with 22-year old intern Monica Lewinsky. Although this was pre-Facebook years, we were pretty avid with e-mails and voicemails, and boy did these give the right punches in court.Oh yes, and let’s not forget “the blue dress”, but this is irrelevant in this research. They allegedly had a two-year affair. The media had a fiasco with this scandal and it continued to milk it for more than a year. Sixteen months later, Monica Lewinski even made an appearance on Saturday Night Live after they also used this story week after week as the base of jokes. Can you imagine what that same story would be like today? Maybe the evidence would have included some racy pics of the President, don’t you think? Maybe seeing the details of the alleged affair would’ve been too much for the former First Lady Hillary Clinton to
It is evident that we as a society are controlled by socially constructed norms and ideals that dictate our everyday actions, even those that seem simple and innocent. At first, writing a paper about a real life, everyday, example of how I re-enforce normalization seemed impossible. It took me hours to think of a scenario, until finally, I thought, what was one of the first things I did this morning? Get dressed of course! But what could possibly be so unorthodox about that, or how could that even relate to western ideals? After taking a second to critically analyze the way I dress, I have come to the conclusion that everything is wrong about this seemingly insignificant ritual.
Movie stars. They are celebrated. They are perfect. They are larger than life. The ideas that we have formed in our minds centered on the stars that we idolize make these people seem inhuman. We know everything about them and we know nothing about them; it is this conflicting concept that leaves audiences thirsty for a drink of insight into the lifestyles of the icons that dominate movie theater screens across the nation. This fascination and desire for connection with celebrities whom we have never met stems from a concept elaborated on by Richard Dyer. He speculates about stardom in terms of appearances; those that are representations of reality, and those that are manufactured constructs. Stardom is a result of these appearances—we actually know nothing about them beyond what we see and hear from the information presented to us. The media’s construction of stars encourages us to question these appearances in terms of “really”—what is that actor really like (Dyer, 2)? This enduring query is what keeps audiences coming back for more, in an attempt to decipher which construction of a star is “real”. Is it the character he played in his most recent film? Is it the version of him that graced the latest tabloid cover? Is it a hidden self that we do not know about? Each of these varied and fluctuating presentations of stars that we are forced to analyze create different meanings and effects that frame audience’s opinions about a star and ignite cultural conversations.