For my term paper I think I want to continue in the direction that I created already and use the piece from my previous blog post. I think this piece would be beneficial for my argument to speak how in this day and age we live so many individuals rely on news and social media to understand or get a sense of what is going on in society. Unfortunately many of our reporters have exploited the fact that people rely on their stories and have sold society false propaganda and news to get their status as a reporter up or to be known as the one to discover a story. I want to show how that has been the scenario and use some of the information we learned in class about how society has attach onto false. I also want to show the ideas of Aristotle and others to show how these reporters or journalist gets our society to leach onto their reporting and make them believe that there reporting are the truth. I also want to show how social media over the last decade or two has influence the mass uprising of fake news with these platforms being so accessible has made society accept their false reporting without checking for themselves or doing any background research because they believe that these social media outlets would not lie to them about their current events going on because of how much many people today rely on their social media. I want to highlight how social media is one huge symbolic convergence with so many people have created or joined an social media outlet because they felt press by society, their peers, etc to be apart of the "in crowd". Many of these individuals don't want to feel alienated from society therefore they go against maybe their own will and join these social platforms to feel as though they are apart of today society. If possible I want to speak on a personal experience of how I fell to the pressure of joining social media because I didn’t want to feel left out or alienated from my peers because I did not join the same social platforms that they were apart. I will use the example of the 2 assumptions: communication creates reality and individual meaning will converge community consciousness to further my argument. My piece of evidence of fake news will come from Amy Lange from the Detroit Fox department who publish a story in January. Journalist Amy Lange reports that a local business owner flew to Iraq to get his mom who was very ill. When he went to get her he tried to fly her back to the United States so she could be with him and receive the help she needed she was denied because of the new ban that Donald Trump put for certain Iran Countries. This story cause much controversy being retweeted by over 3,000 times and shared on Facebook over 123,000 times. This will be my main piece of evidence to show how our society accepts any story and go along with it without knowing if it’s true or not.
Lange, A. (2017, January 31). Detroit family caught in Iraq travel ban, says mom died waiting to come home. Retrieved April 14, 2017, from http://www.fox2detroit.com/news/local-news/232856168-story
I would like to speak with you directly about the progress of this paper. What you describe here is not rhetorical criticism in the formal sense. It's certainly true that false and exaggerated stories are commonplace within the mass media, but I think it would be inaccurate to imply that reporters all are motivated to exploit the public and scoop the competition more than anything else. You seem to suggest that you would use a Fantasy-Theme method, which seems plausible - especially given the way the story was widely shared over social network media. Consider, however, that the goal of FT method is to identify the elements in the message that might cause particular groups to react. While the viral sharing of a story would indicate the extent of the story's impact, the mere act of sharing online does not really indicate anything about the audience, their preferences, their attitudes, or even how they understand the meaning of the story. People will post and share things online for a broad variety of reasons: they might be outraged, they might think it's funny, they might have just been talking about it with friends, they might be from the area - there are innumerable motives for sharing a story online.
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