Wednesday, October 10, 2012

I chose to watch a video from the CNN newsroom on the Sandusky trial and his sentencing announcemet posted on October 9, 2012. I picked up on many aspects of biased tones from the reporter and how his voice so easily portrayed the situation and made the listening audience feel a certain way. The first biased choice off of Cline's list that stood out to me the most was Narrative Biased. This actual video clip was an excellent coverage of this biased idea of story telling. The audience becomes more interested when there is a story involved such as the Sandusky case with a beginning  his capture, a middle, the trial, and an end being his sentencing. It keeps the audience going for a long period of time and interested and wanting to continuously tune in which is a smart move by the networks to give enough info, but not too much so the listeners don't return. The journalist was seeking out more dramatic moments of the trial to sway the audience in a negative manner towards Sandusky. Although some may believe in his innocence, after listening to the news cast, the majority of audiences would probably have a negative outlook. The reporter mentioned things such as quotes from some victims and the tone used to reveal the quotes is what causes the auidence reaction. Victim number five stated that "the sentencing will never make me (him) whole; there will always be tears and pain." Victim number six said "tickle monster was a name you ( Sandusky) used to touch me when I was eleven," making the audience feel sadness for the situation regardless of Sandusky's side to the story. After hearing something along those lines with good story telling, some would see Sandusky loses a side all together.

As I continued pondering which choice from  Cline's list, I chose the Expediency Biased. CNN is one of the sources constantly on the go fulfilling the public with information on the top news stories. It is a constant competion within newsrooms. From watching the video, I picked up that the information was given to the reporter quickly and without much notice. This shows me that CNN was on top of the information because it essentially is all a competition. I was led to this conclusion from the way the journalist studered and mixed up his words so often. The man reporting is commonly found on the CNN newsroom and carries himself well and professionally without messing up any of his news taping, but this one he did. To me this screams he received the information extremely fast because he was messing up so often.

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