Wednesday, April 13, 2011

A Tale of Three Networks - Obama's budget plan

Obama just released his new budget plan. CNN.com, MSNBC.com, and FoxNews.com have their different ways of describing it. Here are their headlines at actual size.



From CNN.com:



From MSNBC.com:


From FoxNews.com:



********UPDATE*********

FoxNews has already changed their headline a bit. I'm guessing that with all of their accusations about Obama and the left trying to ignite class warfare they realized that they were being a bit hypocritical :



********UPDATE 2***********

After realizing that their attempt to cover up their attempt to ignite class warfare was not grammatical, they changed their headline yet again:


Posted by the narrator at 12:48 PM

3 comments:

  1. the narrator4/13/2011 1:15 PM

    As a friend pointed out, the rhetorical change is done to emphasize that those whose Obama's plan is "targeting" are those who have "earned" their money ("earners")--ie. Obama is taking money from good, hard-working Americans. In this sense, they are inciting class warfare even more.

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  2. Christopher Smith4/13/2011 1:17 PM

    Surprisingly, MSNBC's is possibly the least charitable of the three.

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  3. Andrew S4/13/2011 6:39 PM

    When I saw MSNBC's, I thought it was Fox's, haha

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