In eight pages a popular magazine's editorial is analyzed for metaphor usage and slant in order to reveal its triggers of script that reinforce the author's ideological position. Three sources are cited in the bibliography.
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as if everyone had an opinion about why this atrocity happened, what could be done to prevent it from happening again, and if it would happen again. In true journalistic
style many magazine editors gave the public what they asked for and most, in addition to the myriad of pictures and articles featuring the rescue workers as well as the
victims and the terrorists, were the editorial pages. At any given time in history the editorial pages of a magazine are full of innuendo and hype. At times the
political agenda is so transparent as to be entertaining, even laughable. Looking through the advertisers in the magazine can only verify whose bandwagon the editor sits on, and taken as
evidence along with the tone of the particular topic of the day can virtually guarantee that the opinion of the editor will match those of the advertisers. Even with the
devastation and the emotional havoc that September 11 brought with it, editors were still compelled to speak their minds as long as they jived with the same thoughts of the
people buying the ads. Diane Weathers, editor in chief of Essence Magazine, remarks in her January 2002 issue, that the particular issue of Essence will be called the War
on Girls. She states that it is ironic that they had already chosen the title for this issue before the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. After the
air strikes, they left the title as it was and decided to add articles that would help everyone to make sense of things that were going on due to the
attack by Bin Laden. Featured in this issue of Essence was an essay written by an African American Black Woman who was a practicing Muslim, as well as a new