Emma Spencer
The article “Why the Media will Lift Trump up and Tear
Clinton Down” posted on Vox was posted on May 5. The article describes the fact
that Clinton and Trump will be the final bipartisan candidates, as well as the
fact that the media will build up Trump to make the representatives seem more
even matched. The combination of the FiveThirtyEight graph that is utilized
within this article is interesting. The majority of the article is anecdotal,
he uses snippets of quotes from a number of government officials that talk
about their worry and dislike around Trump. Anecdotal due to the fact that
these are a number of individual’s personal experience around the candidate. He
also compiles a number of tweets around the two candidates as well. A graph is
also used to show the acceptance of Trump over the last few months by
republican voters.
Anecdotal
data is used throughout this article, proving the point that the media will
continue to increase Trump’s reputation and decrease Clinton’s. By using
multiple examples of individual’s actual feelings and thoughts as well as real
tweets, this helps to prove the main points of the article. Overall the data
being used throughout this article is qualitative, because they are personal
thoughts and feelings rather than actual statistics. However the article also
utilizes quantitative data with the use of the graph and other scattered
statistics throughout the article.
Data in
the article could easily be skewed in the other direction, however. The author
could have easily used only examples of Trump being torn down by the Media and
Clinton being raised up. He also could have used the same data to tell other
stories about the way in which we view candidates that are male and female or
many other factors in the election. Although the anecdotal data allows for real
experiences to be shared, only a few are used, making an article like this easy
to disprove.
http://www.vox.com/2016/5/5/11589262/2016-general-election-is-going-to-suck
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