Presentations and other's posts

First of all, I would like to say thanks to all of my class for the nice things they had to say about my and Kevin's presntation. As many said, we did focus on the current reality shows and tried to touch on the controversial side of reality tv. However, not wanting to seem biased and in order to get a better understanding of people's thoughts, we used an article that praised reality tv. One class mate stated that an audio clip of Simon would have been good, and I agree. Keven and I searched everywhere, specifically, of a video or audio clip of Simon telling someone they were fat, but could not find one. That was the only dissapointment I had about our presentation.

As for the other group that went Tuesday and Thursday, I though they did excellent jobs. They provided interesting and relevent information about thisr topics, in turn showing how rhetoric is essentially applied everywhere. Jillian crtisized her presentation by stating she did not meant to come off biased toward fox news, but I never got the impression that her and her partnew were. She explained that fox just had the most information about it, and with it being the youngest and most controversial, there would be the most information about it. Overall, I thought they did very well and provided great information that helps not only to show the type of rhetoric each station uses, but even to be observant of these when watching the various news programs. I will have to agree that fox takes the most risks, not only in news shows, but in all of their programming. Just last night they showed something like famous people without make-up, where they aired footage of various stars without make-up or nice clothing. A new spin on reality tv, I guess. This is the down hill path entertainment has taken.

To the group that presented about the Holocaust, I really enjoyed your presentation as well. It was very informative and creative. I liked the visuals and actually being able to hear Elie Weisel speak the speech that you were presenting. I was impressed that you were able to focus on such a difficult topic and be able to separate his uses of rhetoric from the content and subject of his speech. It was something that we all had a difficult time doing with Churchill. I also found it interesting to compare Churchill to Weisel. They are such different rhetors, yet they saying many of the same things to their audiences. I would have never expected to be able to make a comparison like that, and without looking at the rhetorical aspects, you would not be able to compare the two.

I look forward to hearing the rest of the presentations and geeting more information about various things going on that others find interesting.