Media Text inquiry--> Second WT Introductions


1. Which social groups are marginalised, excluded, or silenced within the text?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/20/magazine/palm-oil-borneo-climate-catastrophe.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

 This news article "Palm oil was supposed to help save the plant. Instead it unleashed a catastrophe." published also published on the New York times is about how the use of vegetable oil, specifically palm oil in bio fuels is leading to industrial scale deforestation and a huge spike in carbon emissions in the air. There is use of diction in the tittle to grab the audience's attention to the issue of the article, as well as a strong tone is portrayed to so the negative impact of the vegetable oils on the environment around industrial areas and how that can further affect the whole planet. The article is simply marginalising how palm oil is ruining the environment and increasing carbon emissions leading to explosions which also is ruining homes for people. It stated that a mother with two children bands her children from going outside to play because of the high risks as it now appears these political decisions of using vegetable oils as fuels is creating global consequences. This text excluded the most important fact that these type of forests that are harvesting these oils are ruining the nature of our planet to create palm oil farms which increases the carbon footprint and is driving global warming. There is use of bias through diction and through selection in this news article as one point of view is being shared and the other aspect of the story is being silenced in some way to show that there is no importance for it. 

2. How could the text be read and interpreted differently by two different readers? 
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/20/opinion/pelosi-democrats-trump-republicans-congress.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion-columnists&action=click&contentCollection=columnists&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=6&pgtype=sectionfront

 The opinion column "For a second there we stopped talking about Trump" published on the New York Times is about how Bret Stephens depicts his support for the democrats of America instead of the republicans, Trump. The bias choice of diction in the tittle of this opinion column depicts the different ideologies present. When reading this article there is obviously two different way this article can be interpreted, one being the reader understanding the support system for the democrats being the new house and not wanting the republican rule, whereas the other interpretation is that the democrats are not being well presented in the Senate and the republicans having the most popular Senate votes.  Either way, the readers can look at this opinion column from different lenses as they will have different ideologies they follow and they will have different beliefs thus values in mind to influence how they want to interpret this column. 

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