Monday, November 30, 2009

Repoters and Rhetoric

According to Geoffrey Cowan, essay he agrees with George Orwell about "Politics and the English Language. George Orwell states that people should be careful of the way
that English Language is display especially the way it could be written and this reminds use that Orwell states that the English Language should be short but clear. Geoffrey Cowan essay explain his views about the English Language as a journalist. He states that you have to be careful of the choice of words, because every word you write or say can be examine under the microscope. Geoffrey Cowan states that words flows around the world quickly. He states "wars are decisive moments of truth. but we really don't know what the real truth is. Cowan states that what ever a journalist report should be accuracy and true.
I agree with both the writers, in order to have good accurrate information, we need to "truth" and not fabacated information. When writing English Language repoters need to keep the rhetoric out of the story and kept it short and percise.
I think this was a very important essay because it back up George Orwell essay up about Politic and The English Language. The six rule needs also need to be applied.

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Welcome to the Infotainment Freak Show

According to the essay by Martin Kaplan, "Welcome to the Infotainment Freak Show" He states that the media is not reporting news that can inform people of revelant information. Kaplan states "news" isn't news nowadays, the media worry about bringing entertainment,so they can accummulating more audiences so they would have higher ratings, with this it brings more money. Martin Kaplan writes,"That media will report about someone who is famous,just to hold and grab the audiences attention. He also report that the internet is what people relie on these days, but how do we know if this offcial information.
I agree with Martin Kaplan, I think that the media does focus more on the rich and famous, like Paris Hilton for instances, how she had to turn herself into jail. I think America media has lost their focus on the real life issues. Like how the economy is declining each day, people are losing their jobs, and becoming homeless.
I think America needs to come back to reality and deal with the issues that at hand.By reading this essay it made me realize how the media can persude you to believe that other things is important.

Sunday, November 15, 2009

The Limis of Language

What Orwell didn't know by George Orwell, The Limits of Languge by Nicholas Lemann
In this essay Orwell talks about the propose of english in politic. Many who is in Politics they use alot of rhetoric, which they never speak in leaman terms, or they never use striaght talk. It is said that there is "corruption of language" because most of the news are accessible throught the internet and many other ways.
Many people believe what is written on the internet without giving a second though if we are receiving honest information. Orwell saying that language sometime can't always be trusted, He states that it depends on where we get are news source from, because the news that we receives may be a risk. I agree with Orwell that we have to be aware of the language that is being used in politic because we may not be able to understand it. We also should be caution where we get are news source because we are taking a big risk. I think this is a very importance advise. This is a good relible information he should have wrote in his essay, this is good tips how to us english language. He aslo includes that people should be aware where you get your news information.

Sunday, November 8, 2009

What Orwell Didn't Know

In the reading of what Orwell Didn't Know, George Orwell talks about politic and the English language. He inform his readers, when you are writing in the English language, people should write clearly and in Lehman terms,so where everyone can understand. Orwell said if you use difficult words, people wouldn't be able to follow those readings. He gives six simply rules for writing, in which this will make a person keep their writing short, clear, and understandable.

I agree with George Orwell that writing should be short and precise,and if we go by his six rules we could become better writer by using shorter word, and just getting to the point. I think by Orwell writing this in his book it give me a little more confident in my writing and many others. I was very surprise that he used a bible scripture to inform his readers that writing in this form is nothing new.

Sunday, November 1, 2009

9 FBOP Banks Closed

California National In R.C Now U.S. Bank, This article was found in the Daily Bulletin,Sunday November 1, 2009. According to the staff and wire reports Reagulators had to close nine more national banks due to the loan defaults. Majority of these banks were located in Southern California. By these banks closing, boost the number of failing bank to 115 this year. California National Bank has 153 offices which the government reopen on Saturday under the name U.S Bank Branches. FDIC spoke man David Barr said it will feel like a merger for customer.I agree that the U.S Bank comming in and taking over, so people will not lose their money.These stories is starting to become very typical. Personally, I don't trust the banking system anymore. This take me back to Indy mac when customer wasn't aware that government were taking the bank over because of default loans. This was a sad day for many, most people lost their funds. FDIC only insure them up to $150,000 and the rest of their money was lost. My question is how do people start trusting again? What will the banks do to draw people back as customer? I think this was a good article to publish in the newspaper because this is a reminder that people need to be careful with how much money they put in the bank. This also inform us that we are still in recession.