Read some coverage of The State of the Union? What did media covering the speech highlight as some of Obama's key points? Did you observe any examples of biased/unbalanced reporting?
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I chose to read three articles, one from Yahoo, BBC and another from Associated Content. Each of them highlighted Obama's focus on job creation and measures to fix the economy and national deficit. Yahoo and BBC shared an aurora of doubt, but the coverage from Associated Content seemed to be more objective, in fact the article's title suggests an unadorned summary of Obama's speech. The BBC article emphasized our, still, unstable financial system and the many challenges that face the president. Yahoo sifted through his speech for statements they could refute against reality; their article was basically a "fact check."
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/news/2010/01/100128_obama_analysis.shtml
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100128/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_fact_check
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2640059/president_obamas_2010_state_of_the.html?cat=9
-Tillman
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/28/obama.post.sotu/index.html
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/28/us/politics/28obama.html
The articles that I read on the State of the Union Address mostly highlighted the points made about creating new jobs and how Obama wants Republicans to step up and do something about the economy, instead of running.
The CNN article that I read concentrated on news jobs, the health care reform, how democrats lost their 60 seat majority and about how Obama says Republicans need to step up to the plate. The article concentrated mostly on what Obama has done wrong in his term. It did not highlight what he has done right, or give much hope about the future.
The article from MSNBC concentrated on the money problems we face. The article stated how Obama wants to do a spending freeze for a year on government programs. The article mostly stated how Obama feels the spending freeze will help the people of America.
The article from The New York Times talks about how Obama wants the Democrats and Republics to come together to work out the best way to fix the economy, and leave their personal agendas behind. The article also talks about how the Republicans have a supermajority in the Senate now. This article seems unbiased to me, as it highlights both liberal and conservative points of view.
Grace Luoma
The three articles that I read regarding President Obama were The Huffington Post, ABC News.go.com, and Time Magazine-time.com.
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http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/State_of_the_Union/president-obama-state-of-the-union-address/story?id=9678571
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1957301,00.html
The news coverage from The Huffington Post did a great job with reporting a balance of the President's speech. The coverage ranged from the President stating that each political party must take responsibility to service the citizen of the US and stop pointing the finger at each other. The President also vowed to bring the economy up to part, by creating more jobs for the jobless. Health-Care, Energy and education were the other major issues that were heavily mentioned.
ABC News.go.com article concentrated on the President making jobs his main priority due to the double digits of unemployment, creating new jobs and repairing the economy. The article mentioned that the president took the blame for mistakes that he made in his first year of office and what he and his administration will do to make changes as he campaigned to get into office.
Time Magazine-Time.com's article went into details with the President's speech. The article states that the President is a bold individual who is serious about making the people of the US aware of the greatness that is yet to come despite what it before them at this time. The President spoke boldly about education and its importance by cutting taxes for American’s who are paying for a college education. The articles also touched on topics such as the differences between the Democrats and the Republicans making it known that both parties must put their personal differences aside and focus on the well being of the American people. Lastly the article touched on the set back that President's administration had in its first year. The President states that the set back was just means for bouncing back to go to the next level.
In conclusion, I think that the three media outlets did a fair job when it came to reporting the President’s State of the Union speech.
-Quinetra J. Cromuel
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/29/mann.obama.year/index.html?iref=allsearch
ReplyDeleteThis CNN article discusses how the president’s state of the union address was similar to that of a campaign speech. The author, Jonathan Mann, makes it out like this is a bad thing. He states that unemployment has risen 10 percent this past year and the president’s overall approval ratings have dropped. Mann also discusses how Americans feel disappointed with the president’s job so far. President Obama has made a promise in his State of the Union speech that he is going to focus more on the American public and create transparency so there is no need for citizens to find distrust in Washington. I disagreed with Mann’s criticism of the president’s delivery of the state of the union. He understands that his approval ratings are low and American citizens are generally unsatisfied. He needs to pep them up more than ever. Heals needs to bring himself back down to the American people and I believe he is starting to do so by being readily available and exposed to the United States citizens.
Charlotte Whedon
I read two articles about obamas state of the union. The first article was from CNN and described his speech from a negative standpoint, and didn't seem to like the direction he was heading as president. The article starts off by stating how obama had said "Health care is now on the back burner, and the pain of a lingering economic recession is front and center", stating a negative point and following with another problem of ecoomic recession to start of the descripition of the speech does not seem too positive. The article focused on the direction of obamas speech and how he is now talking more about the economic recession and not so much about healthcare, his initial point of attack. which is then followed by the fact that democrats have lost their 60 seat majority in the senate, making it hard to pass the reform bill.
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Ryan Lowe
The second article came from fox news, a notoriously conservative news station that had a very negative opinion about the speech, even titleing the article "Obama's Sorry State of the Union Speech". The article was directly focused on picking out obamas flaws in his speech, saying he changed course or "pivoted" on these points "advocated the use of nuclear power, domestic drilling, clean coal, capital gains tax cuts, spending freezes". The article also pointed out contradictions such as the want to create jobs, yet over 3 million have been lost in his term. The overall attitude of this article is described by this staement, "President Obama's State of the Union address was poorly thought out, not terribly well executed, and, in the end, tremendously ineffective."
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Ryan Lowe
http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/Obama+focuses+creation+state+union+address/2492130/story.html
ReplyDeleteThe article's main points were on the fact that in 2010 Obama's focus is to create new jobs for Americans. Which we all know is quite needed at this time. The article went on to say how Obama has realized that he was focusing on health-care reform a bit to much and needed to help boost the economy which is recovering slowly. Obama voiced that he would do this by increasing U.S. exports as a job-creation measure. The article went on to talk about Obama's slipping approval rating, which has only become enhanced by the election of republican Scott Brown for the U.S. senate seat. The article finished up by revisiting Obama's new goal which is to double our exports over the next five years, an increase that Obama claims will support two million jobs in America. They then touched briefly about Obama's plan to create billion dollar high speed train project in which he would speak about at our school the University of Tampa on Thursday. From reading this article I could not find any particular slant in any direction either for or against what Obama had said in his address , the article simply reported what was said and presented the reader with back up information to help clarify it.
-Matt Brown
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ReplyDeleteI read three articles which discussed very different perspectives on the 2010 State of the Union Address.
People-Press focused mainly on the three top priorities which Obama is looking to improve in 2010. Leading over 14 points of all other topics were to strengthen the economy, improving the current job situation and increase protection from terrorism. This were once again said to be the key issues Democrats and Republicans want to modify.
The People-Press took a neutral perspective unlike the New York Times with an article obviously coming off as a Democratic supporter. They opened by explaining how the current situation the United States was not created from Obama and cannot be fixed within only a year. They also stated the importance in standing strong against the Republicans Party allowing future bills to get passed, enabling the office to start making the changes necessary we need right now..
The Los Angeles Times article seemed skeptical of Obama’s plans for 2010. This article shows a more Republican point of view believing Obama has not made the changes he has promised to the citizens when elected. LA Times does not seem optimistic that Obama will be able to make comprises with others in office to make real changes
http://people-press.org/report/584/policy-priorities-2010.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/28/us/politics/28obama.html
. http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jan/27/nation/la-na-obama-speech27-2010jan27
-Samantha Cook
President Barack Obama delivered his State of the Union address January 27. Among his key points were jobs, health care reform, spending freeze, don’t ask- don’t tell and foreign policy.
ReplyDeleteJobs are a clear plan on Obama’s agenda. He proposes new job bills for 2010. Obama plans on giving community banks $30 billion for small business loans that will come from Wall Street banks.
Though it is believed to hurt the poor, Obama plans to halt government-spending starting in the year 2011-2014. This ‘spending freeze’ would mean making financial arrangements where spending is budgeted and sacrifices are made for things we don’t need.
Not much attention was given to Obama’s don’t ask, don’t tell policy, but he did make it clear that gay Americans shouldn’t be denied the right to serve in the U.S. military solely based on who they are.
Whether an Obama supporter or not, there were definitely opinions about the delivery of his speech. Writer Toby Harnden was particularly opinionated about Obama’s delivery of foreign policy and don’t ask, don’t tell. “ It might not be wise for Mr. Obama to tackle the issue that cost Bill Clinton so much time and political capital,” Harnden said in the Telegraph. Harden also made a point to sight out that even though the United States is currently engaged in two wars, Obama didn’t mention foreign policy until three-quarters into his speech. He questioned why soldiers are still being sent to Afghanistan.
Terry Schmeckpeper from the La Crosse Tribune had nothing but positive things to say about Obama’s speech. Schmeckler was very proud when Obama was able to admit that he has made mistake and has learned a lot from his first year in office.
http://www.lacrossetribune.com/news/opinion/article_29639ca6-0d42-11df-91ac-001cc4c03286.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/7095934/State-of-the-Union-key-points-of-Barack-Obamas-speech.html
- Christal Ceithamer
I think it is very interesting in the first article I opened that it was entitled, "State of Dis-Union". Right away to anyone who hadn't heard the State of the Union address, would have a biased opinion without having the chance to form an opinion themselves.
ReplyDeleteDan Dorfman, author of the article that appeared in The Huffington Post said, "he President, who told Congress its number one focus this year should be on job creation, served up little in the way of realistic hope for resolving the nation's chief economic illness, lofty unemployment."
The entire article really stabs at Obamas speech and the support it lacks.
I also read an article in The Washington Post, "Obama's 2010 State of the Union address fact-checked". it took a different approach and grasped if what Obama was saying was honest. They set the facts straight.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns-dc-obama-jobs-02,0,5038197.story
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/27/AR2010012705474.html
-Daniella Fusari
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/27/obama.sotu/index.html
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http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/State_of_the_Union/state-union-2010-fact-check-president-obamas-address/story?id=9680549
CNN simply outlined and incessantly quoted the State of the Union Address rather than elaborating on it or posing a question or opinion. Though they do mention the conflict between Democrats and Republicans several times. They said there were some “humorous moments” when Obama discussed tax cuts and many Republicans remained seated while Obama said, “I knew that one would get applause. The final paragraph mentions again, Republicans remaining seated and a bit lackluster while Obama discusses coming together. Just because Obama made a few jokes doesn’t mean he doesn’t truly want this feuding between parties to continue. Of course there are differences between the two but if we keep focusing on how different we all are then we’re never going to be able to come together. What are the children supposed to do if Mother and Father cannot compromise enough to just want to live a life and have their children grow up as successfully as possible? Besides, he made jokes about things other than parties.
ABC News took it upon themselves to see if the plans the president had check out. Their article, “Fact Check of President Obama’s Address” went over areas such as monitoring lobbyists, the new healthcare plan’s affect on the national debt, job creation, and tax cuts and breaks. They said the numbers on how much the new healthcare plan would reduce the amount of debt had changed from $1 trillion to about $138 billion. Also, the amount of jobs created vs. how much money is being spent on the stimulus package vary largely. ABC strikes Obama down several times. Their coverage and “fact-checking” is short, but not to the point. It leaves the reader wondering why more couldn’t be said on each of these important topics.
AJC’s article focus on money matters and what is being spent, I mean done, about the country’s bewildering amount of debt. It mentions Republicans not being happy with his “deficit cutting.” They never really seem to be happy. But it isn’t just about being happy.
-gina moccio
Most of the coverage of Barack Obama’s State of the Union address seemed to focus on Obama’s plans for the economy, the middle class, and reducing the deficit. The overall tone of the CNN article seemed positive, borderline supportive of the President and his speech. Fox News was much more negative, talking about the GOP and its dislike for Obama neglecting to talk about national security.
ReplyDeleteI don’t really follow politics too closely, but a couple of things caught my eye. The first bit that I noticed was Obama’s mention of more help for college students. Too bad that isn’t going to help me out before May. Second was the part about the nuclear power plants and offshore drilling… I thought Democrats were against that stuff? And finally, I was horrified by some of the numbers on our national deficit. I knew it was bad… But wow. 9.1 trillion dollars in this decade?
Thanks for that inheritance, Dad, Mom, Grandpa and Grandma.
-David Glenn
the biggest things that the media highlighted as President Obamas key points was the talk about the bank bailout, the economy, his lack of discussion about the wars, and his health system plan. All of these topics are very important and for the most part, polarizing topics. The New York Times journalists did a good job with discussing the views from both sides of the issue (Republicans vs. Democrats) instead of writing with a bias standpoint. President Obama did a good job with trying to connect the democrats and the republicans by discussing how terrible the bank bailout was. His use of humor and intelligence make him a good speaker that will get many listeners attention. All in all I think the President’s speech was excellent, every point was covered effectively, and the New York Times articles that I read were well covered and prepared.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/28/us/politics/28obama.html?ref=politics
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/28/us/politics/28watch.html?ref=politics
Wayne Westerlind