Find a “news” story from the Onion News Network, and compare it to a contemporary news story or clip from a “real” news source (a TV channel, newspaper, etc.). Discuss them both in terms of gatekeeping and agenda-setting functions, as well as the breakdown and reevaluation of discourse that Baym talks about in his article. Citing Baym will help (100-150 words).
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the two sources I found, one from the Onion New Network and the other from CNN.com, there was a distinct difference between them. In the CNN video, they are speaking to a representative of Biden and interviewing him about the tax cut. In the video of from the Onion, they too are taking about the tax cut, but they are doing so in a way to mock Biden. They are reporting on a story of Biden hosting an intimate discussion of the tax cut in a mountain Chalet for all women of America. In the Onion video they are mocking the story and the Vice president and even uses representative to talk for Biden as they do in the real CNN news story.
http://www.theonion.com/video/biden-invites-nations-women-to-tax-code-discussion,18245/http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2010/12/08/exp.ps.bernstein.tax.deal.cnn?iref=allsearch
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