Below is a link to an article about Peter Orszag. Please read the article and respond to the following questions:
1. What is the tone of the piece?
2. How doe the author feel about Peter Orszag?
3. What is the purpose of the article?
4. After reading, how do you feel about the issue?
5. Finally, is this news-worthy?
Make sure you cite evidence in each one of your responses.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/fashion/10orszag.html?ref=style
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Am I allowed to not finish the article beacause I think the content is utterly ridiculous? Honestly, I can answer the last question straight off of the bat. This is nowhere near newsworthy. Who cares? The tone of the piece is investigative, if that is a tone. Mark Leibovich has this, "Hmmmmm...he says this, but is it true?...Hmmmmm..." This is news for a slow news day when there is ABSOLUTELY nothing better to talk about. The author does not support Peter Orszag and thinks he is a shady character. The purpose of the article, I believe, is entertainment, which has little place in the NY Times, I might add. I have no opinion. I do not really care. Why in the world are they pulling politics into relationship struggles? It is not the business of the public.
ReplyDeleteIs it bad that I believe the article in it's entirety is my evidence for my answer to every question.
-Talayne Gardiner
I can not decided whether this article was meant to be sarcastic or was meant to mock Peter Orszag. The article focuses more on Orszag's politics and decisions as a leader, and more on the aspects of his personal life. I feel the author does not take Orszag seriously as a politician and considers him to be just a handsome face and "celebrity." I feel this article was a waist. While reading it, I felt I was watching TMZ or reading the latest TMZ updates on my phone. The article does not reflect Orszags politics what so ever. The article is not newsworthy, but it feels more likely to belong in a gossip column.
ReplyDelete-Ayrica Sawyer
I found that the author Mark Leibovich’s tone was often very mocking, as indicated by his exaggerated diction. For instance, he describes the, “breathless fascination” of the press as they “gush” about Orszag’s taste for diet Coke.
ReplyDeleteThe mocking epithet’s Leibovich saddles Orszag with, such as “The Casanova with the Calculator” leads me to believe that the author is a bit resentful of Orszag
The article’s purpose is to detail the drama in which Orszag is currently involved, as well as cover, and prove ridiculous, the obsessive media coverage of Orszag’s drama.
After reading the article I feel that the issue is a non-issue. It’s unrelated to anything of actual importance. Even though Orszag’s the director of the OMB, his personal affairs aren’t linked directly to our budget crisis.
I don’t think this story deserves the news coverage it has received. As a relatively high profile figure, it was bound to garner some attention. But to follow the Orszag saga so thoroughly, even obsessively, is a waste of media resources that would be better spent covering stories of real importance to the American public.
The consistently obvious tone in this article is one of mockery and sarcasm. There seems to be some underlying feeling of disdain towards Peter Orszag. The language is so exaggerated that its hard to take whatever his argument is seriously. The author feels that Mr. Orszag is a messy character that can't seem to handle his personal life, therefore he has no business handling a huge economic crisis. I don't see much point to the article, other than trying to put down the OMB director.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading the article, I still feel no more informed than I was in the beginning. I feel that I just learned a little more useless gossip about the world. This is not really newsworthy information. In the past people have faced worst personal problems and still manage to separate their two lives. The publicity and media are the ones who create more problems for the people in the end. No one likes their private life splattered across the paper for everyone to hear.
The tone of the piece is one of mocking, ridicule and sarcasm . It is evident that the author stongly dislikes Mr. Orzrag, "Orszag puts the OMG back into the OMB"; implying that Orszag brings scandal-worthy news open for scrutiny from the public . The purpose of this article is to point out the flaws within Ortzag's personal life "divorced father", and attempting to link these flaws such as to his political life . After reading I feel like I couldv'e spend my time reading something that would spark some intellectual curiosity. I did not find the writer's overt mocking and sarcasm humorous. This article is not news-worthy, if anything it merely showed the contrast between significant articles and irrelavent articles; this falling into the latter.
ReplyDeleteFrom the title alone, "If Peter Orszag Is So Smart, What Will He Do Now?," I can infer that Leibovich's tone will lean more towards sarcasm. Although he is very conversational when adding little snippets of information in parenthesis, as if he is whispering extra facts into our ear. It is clear that the author believes that Orszag is overrated when he uses unnecessarily exaggerated sentences such as "But, of course, this is not a story that will easily go away." The purpose of this article is explore an unneeded inside story of a known politician's personal life. I discovered my feelings about this article well before the end of this story: I Do Not Care! There are disasters occurring around us, citizens in poverty, and two wars we're fighting across the world, and yet I had to spend 10 minutes reading and annotating an article not worthy of the news, yet alone my eyes!
ReplyDeleteThe tone in this article seems to be one of sarcasm and subtle disdain. I think that the author had an ulterior motive to further tarnish Peter Orszags name during the post. Even the title “If Peter Orszag Is So Smart, What Will He Do Now?” is insulting and demeaning.
ReplyDeleteThe author feels that Mr. Orszag is just a handsome face that is not deserving of his accolades. I found no purpose in reading this article; it seemed like more of a gossip column than an editorial. I don’t see how this is newsworthy information at all. There are many much more important things going on in America right now, personally I don’t see how his relationship status if on any importance. As long as his personal life does not affect his business capabilities, I do not see why it should be any of our concern. This is obviously an article dedicated to bashing someone for their personal life decisions, and not for their career capabilities.
-Joseph Fiddmont
The author, Mark Leibovich, as my colleagues have stated, used a very condescending, sarcastic, and mocking tone. He clearly thinks of Mr. Orszag as a joke, and cited a source in which Orszag was compared to football star Tom Brady, being "a player". The purpose of this article is like the purpose of any other tabloid on the magazine stands, to tell the people of America things that they have no business knowing. What difference does it make that Orszag "ditched [his] pregnant girlfriend for ABC news gal" ? This article was printed with the very same intent as any current tabloid, just with a more rich, and more important target.
ReplyDeleteWhat people fail to understand is that people, even spokesmen for the OMB, will people. They make mistakes, but what right do we have to judge them when we probably do not, or never will know him. After reading this article, I feel that the
magazine printers and editors need a serious reality check. The media consists of so much power, and such an influential platform, and I believe that they need to begin printing articles that will help people become more understanding of others, not help them become more judgmental.
This article, to say the least, is completely not newsworthy, and is a waste of the preciously free press that was granted to Americans in the 1st Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.
The tone of this article is sarcastic and intended to mock Peter Orszag. There are constant references to his personal life and his mishaps. It appears as if the author does not take Peter Orszag seriously. Peter Orszag is not looked at as a political leader but rather as a person that is undeserving to lead in the event of economic issues.
ReplyDeleteIt appears as if the author looks at Peter Orszag like a joke and someone that should not be taken seriously. I do not believe that this article is relevant nor news worthy. It was merely meant to entertain and amuse its readers.
-Lorina Kegler
The tone of this article is very sarcastic and did however mock Mr. Orszag.It is obvious that the author of this article has hardly an respect for Mr. Orszag and not only as a political leader but as a person in general. The author is consistantly making insulting names and sarcastic comments such as "brainiac" or just the title itself "If Peter Orszag Is So Smart, What Will He Do Now?" Its just plain out rude and disrespectful to even publish such an article. It seems as if the only purpose this article serves is to make mockery of Mr. Orszag for personal decisions he has choosen to make. I honestly believe that this article is disturbing and was very ignorant for the start of it. I appauld that someone would even allow this article to make it to ny times. This is NOT at all news-worthy, this is a man who like everyone else on this planet had to make a choice should it matter that he works at OMB. He is a person first-hand and should be treated as so not be put in the ny times because of personal decisions that he's made. Only decisons that should be broadcast are those that are in reguard with his political role and duties.
ReplyDeleteI believe that abstinence is something that should definitely be promoted, especially to the inner-city youth. Abstinence is a good alternative to help prolong sexual intercourse, but that does not mean that it will necessarily work. These days peer pressure is a very big issue. Teens are pressured into doing things that they would not usually do, and they take part in the acts so they can be part of the popular or “in” crowd. When students hear the word sex they find humor in it and don’t focus on the lesson that is being taught. If an abstinence course is taught and the intent would be to inform teens and prevent them from having sexual intercourse, I think that it would lead the students to be more curious. Yes, there is the risk of getting a sexually transmitted disease, but when you are constantly showered with provocative images on television, movies, billboards, commercials, etc., it leads them to want to know more. There is also the idea that you must have sex in order to fit in. Guys have it harder than girls when it comes to sex because by the time you make it to high school. They share their sex stories. You either have the choice of making a story up and trying to have the best, going out and having sex to have a real story, or just admitting that you are a virgin. If taught to middle school students, I think that they will retain the helpful information better than the high school students.
ReplyDelete-Adia Brady