Rachel Maddow and John Stewart are most defiantly critical thinking. In Alec Ficher’s “Critical Thinking” he defines critical thinking as be collectively defend as an effort at high level thinking in terms that challenge or contradict pre-existing knowledge and evidence. Maddow and Stewart most certainly are challenging the norm and getting it done in fashion. With countless numbers of fans, people like Maddow and Olbermann actually invest lots of time in developing and fashioning their news. However, still some see them as not a trustworthy news source. The connotations and social imagery communicated by the setting of the TV show and persona of the host set a rather strange an alarming agenda for some to swallow. This should not be looked at face value, as there are good analysis of events in these shows.
I do not consider “The Rage is Not About Health Care,” to be critical thinking because there was less evidence to support the issues. They were targeting those with fear and anger by tailoring their article for that specific audience.
The article does nothing for me because it jumps from topic to topic. What began with healthcare ends with an entire analysis of the Economic, Political, and Structural problems of our country. This unpredictable behavior makes the article less reliable and accurate to me.
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