Question 9

On The Onion News Network, i found this article titled "Obama's Deficit-Reduction Plan Includes Spending Cuts, Robbing Fort Knox, Tax Reform". In the article, it used culture jamming to comment on the deficit by stating that part of Obama's plan was to store billions of dollars of stolen Gold from Ft. Knox in D.C. Whereas this is obviously not true, the article is using elements of gate keeping and agenda setting functions in order to reach a point of critical post modernism, therefore letting the reader analyze the culture jam for themselves. In comparison to an actual legitimate news article such as an article from CNN titled "Obama: 'Never Seen Devastation Like This", the article form The Onion gives a more biased and personal opinion in the form of a culture jam whereas CNN attempts to report the news in their article from a less biased standpoint. In relation to the article from The Onion, in Warner's article on Political Culture Jamming, a good point is made. "Armed with branding techniques honed and perfected in the commercial marketplace, politicians and political parties have attempted to drown out dissident messages to better sell their own political policies....". This article from The Onion is taking the authors personal opinion and manipulating the politics it discusses in order to determine how the reader will interprit the article.