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Outrageous Politics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHGPbl-werw In the current presidential election, I feel as though outrage has been an incredible tactic that both parties have used in their respective campaigns. One of the strategies that Jeffery Berry and Sarah Sobieraj discuss relating back to outrage is the vilification of their opponent. This video is a prime example of the attacks…

The Squeaky Wheel Gets Their Candidate Elected

Imagine a world where someone with a strong opinion and a show on television could influence the results of an election. Or, turn on Fox News or MSNBC. It’s no secret that media has a big influence on American voters in the 21st Century, but the genre of “outrage media” as defined by Berry and…

We Should All Be Outraged

Tune into the Rachel Maddow Show on any given night and you’re bound to catch a gem like this. On her actual “news” program, which Maddow claims has a role in “providing useful and accurate information about the news to the American people,” she does nothing but spout her personal opinions about the political landscape…

How Far Is Too Far?

For as long as I can remember, politics has created a certain tension that results in subjective or often vulgar comments. The Outrage Industry by Berry and Sobieraj puts into perspective just how outrageous politics can and have been. After reading the article, I realized the presence of outrage politics today. The Wake Forest bus…

To You, Lovers of Liberty

There is a new genre of political opinion media called outrage media because it uses tactics to provoke emotional responses from “the rhetoric that defines it, with its hallmark venom, vilification of opponents, and hyperbolic reinterpretations of current events,” (Berry and Sobieraj, Chpt 1). Outrage media has risen to be extremely popular since the 1970’s…

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…