Monday, January 26, 2009

I chose a story that was current, and interesting: the First daughter dolls. A couple of months ago the TY company came out with 2 dolls of colored skin named Sasha and Malia. The company claims that they are not replicas of Obama's girls. They were however quite a hit.

When listening to a talk show radio I heard the host talking to Michelle Obama. She was very apauled that the TY company when behind their backs and made replicas of the girls. She commented that yes their father is now the pressident but the privacy and safty of the girls needs to come first.

When watching Entertainment Tonight they merely focused on the coming out of the new TY dolls. They said nothing about Michelle being offended. It seemed that they were focused more on marketing the new dolls than showing the true emotions behind the whole situation.

ABC news commented on this story as well and they delt more with the legal aspect of this situation. They talked about the TY dolls and the TY company and what they had to say. Never once mentioning the feelings of the Obama family. ABC said that TY claimed they were not marketing the dolls after the Obama girls. ABC thinks differently however when they note the girls mere quincidence of the dolls having darker skin dark hair and the names Sasha and Malia.

This is a fairly popular sotry therefore there were many sources that I was able to find that I was able to collect data from.

1 comment:

  1. What is interesting to me is the variety of choices in covering this story. Each source took a slightly different angle on it; if you put them all together you begin to get a more well-rounded view of the issue than if you just stopped at one source. It shows the many choices the media make, and that their choices affect the type and amount of knowledge you have about an issue.

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