Bored..

Since it's raining here in San Diego and I'm bored in the trailer, I thought it would be the perfect time to catch up on my posts.

Reporters and Rhetoric
In one of this week's essay, Geoffrey Cowan wrote about news reporters and their use of words. He thinks that words used in the news often influence not only the general public but also political leaders. He explains how NBC did so in November of 2006 when they called the war in Iraq a "civil war". He also believes that, "Indeed, there are times when good journalists need to be as concerned with the accuracy of their language as they are with the accuracy of their facts"(161).

I not only actually understood this essay, but also agreed with it. I think that often times journalists write with such emotional words that they don't think that they can influence the general public and sometimes political leaders. But I have a feeling that sometimes they write with these words to be of influence. Just as some people will do anything to persuade one to be on their side, I often think that reporters and journalists do the same.