On September 6th 2011, Mitt Romney announced his full scale plan for economic recovery if he were to be elected President of the United States. News mediums the New York Times, Huffington Post, and USA Today analyzed the ramifications of following through with Romney's economic policies. The NY Times piece, "Romney Lays Out Plan to Revive Economy," explores in great detail how both members of the democratic party and Romney's fellow conservatives some of whom are running against him for GOP nomination, are completely opposed to his ideas. A mainly pessimistic observation of the reactions to Romney's plans were displayed in USA Today's, "Romney's job plan blasted by GOP rivals, Democrats." Even though the Huffington Post, "Mitt Romney Jobs Plan: Presidential Candidate Unveils Proposal Before Obama's Speech," represented the factual negative reactions to Romney's ambitions, they did so with presenting a certain mindfulness of the boldness in his ideals.
Comparatively these three articles draw on similarities in story structure as well as addressing all of the feedback his plan had received. Each piece had a lede that represented how Romney's mission was received by all parties. As each article descends down the inverted pyramid, information is given about the context of Romney's ambition and the continued critiques from his opponents of both political stand points. All of the articles contain an overview of the major aspects of Romney's plans such as, creating 10 concrete actions that will reduce taxes, lift government limitations to allow for more free trade, and call for more oil and gas drilling.
Both USA Today's, "Romney's job plan blasted by GOP rivals, Democrats," and NY Times, "Romney Lays Out Plan to Revive Economy," do not bother to present the notion of much of a positive outcome coming from Romney's proposal. The NY Times displays different statements made by both republicans and democrats alike that all consecutively pan Romney's audacious attempts for prosperity in the economy. Romney's plan is compared to Reagonomics and is revealed as typical conservative idealism, but quotes from his critics in the piece dismiss his plan as no less than delusional. USA Today, implements statements from both Romney and his opposers in an order that completely strips Romney's plans of any merit they could potentially carry. The end quote of the article compares finding salvation from one of Romney's proposals to purchasing one of the rarest items ever sold on E-Bay.
The Huffington Post, expressed the same negative reactions to Romney, but not without expressing proper reasons for his ambitions. This article had also touched upon why Romney is so fervent about his ambitions. In addition to the critiques made to Romney's plan, mention was made of how ideally what he is proposing should help our country from over spending and increasing jobs and productivity. It had also been pointed out that Romney's ideas for less costly federal regulation in business are not foreign and would potentially be benevolent towards the fragile state of our economy.
Craig, there's some good stuff here and obviously you read stories carefully. In future I'd like to see less summaries of the stories and more deconstruction of what the author is doing as a journalist. so you point out things you feel the story is doing, next time try to get at how the author achieved these things. Look forward to reading the next one!
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