editorial presentation

Editorial Presentation

By your host, Chris Wilson

Friday, September 7, 12

Editorial No. 1: “I don’t resent what they’ve built”By Dr. Bill Atwood, Sierra Star

Published Thursday, August 2, 2012

Best article thus far

Main point: survival of the fittest[/fattest]

The writer has the ability to oppose and respect another’s views

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Cont.: Techniques and Success

“Friday, July the 13 wasn’t a very lucky day for the president of the United States. It

wasn’t a misstep and it wasn’t a gaffe. The president showed his true feelings about how he sees the economic system of the United States. I really wasn’t surprised at

his stance but I was surprised that his handlers let him state it... To be fair, many an enterprise has begun and through bad

luck or conditions beyond the control of the businessperson the venture is doomed.

That is how capitalism works. Some make it and many don’t.” (Dr. Bill Atwood, 2012).

Attachment to writer through childhood; extended metaphor to capitalism

My beliefs(feel free to disagree)


Editorial No. 2: “Obamaphobia for dummies”By Peter Cavanaugh, Sierra Star

Published Thursday, August 2, 2012

“Obamaphobia” is herein defined as an emotionally ravaging, soul savaging, highly irrational fear of anything having the most remote connection to the 44th President of

the United States of America.”(Peter Cavanaugh, 2012).

Writer is clearly pro-Obama, anti-Romney

Obamacare and its components


Cont.: Techniques and Success

“By way of illustration, although national polling consistently reveals dramatic across-the-board majority support of the act’s key elements, such approval drops significantly when presented as “Obamacare.”... 56%

of Americans claim to oppose the law as a whole when it’s spoken of as “Obamacare,” most of those surveyed empathically back its primary components.” (Peter Cavanaugh, 2012). The list goes on: “Sixty-one percent of respondents favor allowing young adults to stay on their insurance plan until age 26. Seventy-two

percent wish to maintain the requirement that companies with more than 50 workers provide health insurance for their employees and a full 82% of respondents favor banning insurance companies from

denying coverage to people with pre-existing conditions.” (Peter Cavanaugh, 2012).

Although I enjoy his description, I do wish he’d given an example of “the dozens and dozens of outright lies fashioned... and fed to millions through the

Internet, talk radio and Fox News.”(Peter Cavanaugh, 2012).

Statistics


Quotes!


“Now my feelings lasted so long they left stains. They arose from nowhere, like winds or waves, and battered at me or

engulfed me. When I was angry, I felt myself coiled and longing to kill someone or bomb something big.”

(Page 222)


Tone: angry

Understandable

Interesting

“Stains”


“I was delivered to my enemies, and had no place to hide; I could only wail for my young life so unpityingly snuffed.”

(Page 34)


Tone: fear, life-threatening

Interesting

“Unpityingly”

Point of view


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