As I’m currently in the early phase of writing my vacate-the-speaker deep dive, I want to share with you the PDFs of newspapers that I’ve collected throughout the October drama.
I collected whatever I would get my hands on, scouring through each article, underlining early on in red ink while highlighting in yellow later. I would soon come to highlight key areas that stood out, and underlined areas that I believed were vital in the piece, mostly quotations.
I also wrote some descriptions down to keep note of areas such as:
Articles referring to the House drama (marked with ☆)
Possible use of a block-quote (marked with [ ])
Needed for paraphrasing (marked with ~)
Unsure of the author’s use of terminology, reference, or out-of-context use (marked with ?)
What I hope you the reader takes away from this, is to develop a better understanding of how news outlets write towards a certain audience by using particular phrases, tones, and structure. In short, one may write in a general scope of events, while another may write about what their audience wants to believe.
While I have my own opinions on the media, the many members of Congress, and how the vacate-the-speaker fiasco went down, needless to say, it was a historical dent in congressional history no matter which side you were on.
From,
Craig