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Outrageous Voices in Politics

Outrage politics have played an important role in politics. According to Berry and Sobieraj, outrage politics is “commercial sectors (cable, radio, and the blogosphere), which, grouped together, create an industry that generates outrage as its product” (p. 12). They allow those with similar views to have a sense of validation. Outrage politics usually have…

Role Models

Jeffery M. Berry and Sarah Sobieraj’s The Outrage Industry defines outrage as personality centered, reactive, ideological selectivity, engaging, and marked by internal intertextuality, and further illustrates outrage tactics as an influential characteristic of today’s society. Radio shows, television, social media, and blogs are all venues that are utilized to feed into the creation of outrage…

Outrage Politics or Hilarious Politics?

Fox News broadcaster Sean Hannity has had Anjem Choudary on his show multiple times. Considering every time Choudary has been on Hannity, they end up in a screaming match, trading insults and critiquing each others’ intelligence, why would he continue to feature such an explosive personality on his show? Well, Arbitron, a radio research firm,…

Is outrage the new single thought ?

The present presidential campaign is described by the experts and the medias as “one of the worst” of the American history, especially during the presidential debates. The following video clearly mocks the poor quality of the political stage (from 2.22 to 2:56) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dm8UgpWvxjY. At first, we could think that this violence is quite new, due…

Pretty Please Vote

Overall the Hillary Clinton rally was an entertaining and interesting event. I personally felt like the most important message all of the people that spoke (including the people before Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama) was telling people to vote, that their vote matters. They even went so far as to tell the people who have…

Defining Terror

You can’t ignore it. Especially now during an election season. Terrorism is a part of the American dialogue. According to news anchors and politicians, the treat of terrorism, specifically “radical Islamic terrorism” is something that all Americans should be worried about. However, as Lisa Stampnitzky describes in Disciplining Terror, the way that we talk about…

Hollywood Terrorism

Each new season of 24 forces a new challenge upon Jack Bauer, the sparkplug agent at the Counter Terrorist Unit in Los Angeles. A season tells the story of one day in which Bauer and his team have to somehow prevent a terrorist plot from destroying the world as we know it. Sometimes these would-be…

Living in Fear

In 2013 the Boston Marathon bombings took place when two men were carrying backpacks with pressure cookers in them. They set the backpacks down along the road where people lined the streets to watch the race. After this horrific event occurred my pulse began racing any time I entered a movie theater or gas station…

The Fear of a Full Name

I can still hear my mom saying it. I would be upstairs or in the basement doing my own thing, when, out of nowhere, I would hear “Kathryn Blair Dunaway, you better come here right now”. Although rarely used, when she did use my full name, I knew that it was over with; more specifically,…

The Sky is Falling

American’s have been bred to fear terrorism, and more recently, to fear Muslims entirely. It has been engrained in our heads that being Muslim means that you’re related to terrorism in some way, when in fact, this couldn’t be more wrong. In reality, “most Muslims oppose violence,” a point that Kurzman stresses within his writing….