Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Persuasive?

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/10/19/military-recruiters-told-accept-gay-applicants/
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/10/19/pentagon.gays.recruiting/index.html?hpt=Sbin

Well, one is from a liberal source  of median and the other is from a republican source, by reading both you get a general idea of whats going on, the Federal court is changing the gay in the military clause. Now other than it being a "Don't ask, Don't tell" policy its open towards gays. The recruiters are only required to tell their "gay" applicants that it may change in the future and that they were not certain that they would be able to stay in active service for long. These and the human element that they both used are about the only similarities. The authors then start showing subtle differences in their writing styles, Fox showed a more republican approach, which was more resistant to the idea than its more liberal counterpart CNN. Fox, was much less professional in thier writing than CNN, and it almost seemed like they were waiting for the Pentagon to change the order back, while CNN seemed to deem the whole thing as a good thing with its more professional and more extensive cover of the story.CNN also showed the people they interviewed in a more positive light, with comments that promoted their chosen branches, while Fox left these things out.

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