Question 9

9. The two articles I chose were about the NFL draft. The article from the onion discussed Alabama’s RB Mark Ingram and his draft stock. He cut down a piece of meat and described his talents relating to the meat. The article from CNN.com was about the fans booing the commissioner for the potential lockout of the upcoming season. The boo’s hailed from inside of Radio City even before the draft started. The CNN article relates to a breakdown and reevaluation of discourse by acknowledging the difficulty of solving the problems associated with the lock out. Although it is only sports, the lock out has been a very popular issue recently on the news and several people have been very critical of the situation. The article from the onion is the complete opposite of gatekeeping. We would rarely see something like this on a real news channel. This type of satire provides its followers by presenting comical relief. “culture jamming turns the commercial techniques of image and emotion back on themselves through acts of what Christine Harold calls “rhetorical sabotage” (Warner 190)”.