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Sensationspeak in America

Sensationspeak in America. Jane McMahon. INSIDE THE SICK, DEMENTED MIND OF TUCSON SHOOTER Easing Cuban Travel Restrictions, Team Obama Slaps Cuba's Political Prisoners In the Face Grand mystery as piano appears on Florida sandbar Castration could save reindeer in warming Arctic .

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Sensationspeak in America

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  1. Sensationspeak in America Jane McMahon

  2. INSIDE THE SICK, DEMENTED MIND OF TUCSON SHOOTER • Easing Cuban Travel Restrictions, Team Obama Slaps Cuba's Political Prisoners In the Face • Grand mystery as piano appears on Florida sandbar • Castration could save reindeer in warming Arctic

  3. Sensationspeak in America • Roy Fox examined marketplace tabloids. • Subject matter, language, or style producing or designed to produce startling or thrilling impressions or to excite and please vulgar taste • Harmless, sensational language with noticeable misinformation. • In the past twenty years, sensationalism has become the key rhetorical device in not simply tabloids, but the mainstream media.

  4. Sensationspeak points • Armageddon • Hyperbolic Rhetoric • Media versus Government Propaganda • 1984 Connections

  5. Apocalypse, Now? • Y2K • 06/06/06 • The Large Hadron Collider • Bird Flu • Swine Flu • Dead birds • 2012

  6. Rhetoric • Hyperbolic language has become the norm. • Violent rhetoric has become the central part of sensationspeak. • Sharron Angle, Sarah Palin, etc • Political leaders use gun rhetoric to boost support. • Hyperbolic language about policy. • “Ground Zero Mosque”

  7. Government vs Media • Propaganda does not simply come from the government anymore. • 24 hour news outlets either build support or dissent for the government. • Glenn Beck's Nazi Tourette's

  8. 1984 Connections • O’Brien: It is about the power, not the country • Barack Obama, New Goldstein or New Hitler? • The Two Minute Hate • Ignorance is strength • Fear and Love • The 1984 Paradox

  9. Final thought • Fox stated hyperbolic language is fine but not about war. • Shift in media • Numb like the citizens of Oceania

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