YouTube Video on ANWR featuring Sarah Palin

March 13, 2009 · Filed under Uncategorized

Source Notes

Title:

Sarah Palin on Climate Change and Drilling in ANWR (YouTube, March 13, 2009)

Summary:

This source is a report originally created by ABC News that is now featured on YouTube. In this video ABC reporter Charles Gibson and Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin cover the topics of global warming, drilling on the ANWR, the Trans Alaskan Pipeline, Palin’s preposed changes to energy development in Alaska, and how those propositions contradict with the viewpoints of Arizona Senator and former Presidential Candidate John McCain.

Topic:

Should the United States experiment with oil drilling on the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve (ANWR) in an attempt to reduce our dependence on foreign oil?

Category:

This is mainstream journalistic source.

This source is a YouTube video. Featured form of media: multimedia video.

Publication Information:

This source was taken from ABC News and turned into a YouTube video on September 12, 2008, shortly before the U.S. Presidential Election.

Author:

There is no author for this source, but reporter Charles Gibson is featured in the video.

Location:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np7DKL5e-hg

Accessed:

I last accessed this link on March 13, 2009.

Support:

Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin- supports the introduction of oil and gas exploration into the ANWR as both an Alaskan politician and citizen.

Arizona Senator John McCain- despite the fact that McCain was part of the 2008 Republican Presidential Campaign with Vice-Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin, he disagrees entirely with Palin’s opinion that the ANWR should be opened to oil and gas development.

Fairbanks, Alaska- region featured in this news story that supports a portion of the Trans Atlantic Pipeline.

Depending on the viewer’s perspective, the fact that Palin and McCain disagree on the issue of the ANWR could either indicate that Palin’s stance is unreasonable, or is strongly formulated. In my opinion, Palin’s refusal to side with McCain created a more effective argument for Palin, because it seems to demonstrate the amount of passion and expertise that Palin has on the issue as an Alaskan politician. The scenery for this report of Fairbanks, Alaska gives the audience of this source a visual displaying the type of pipeline that would be constructed in order to derive fuel from the ANWR.

Audience and Agenda:

ABC News and Youtube are both forms of media that haved become extremely typical throughout American society. ABC News should be considered a particularly reliable source for conducting this type of interview. The audience for this story was originally ABC News viewers, but after it was added to YouTube was intended for all those who were curious about Palin’s perspective on the issue of the ANWR. Funding for YouTube comes from advertisements, as well as its parent company http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en. When I last checked this YouTube video had reached 3,928 viewers since its original posting, and had received 104 comments from individuals emotionally motivated by the content of this source.

Usefulness:

This document was created very shortly before the 2008 Presidential Election, so it is likely that it was composed with the intent of informing American voters on the stance that multiple individuals in the McCain Administration were taking on one of the serious issues facing our country. The intended audience for this source between ABC News and YouTube would be as many American citizens as the two mediums have the ability to reach. Through this report Governor Palin is attempting to create the argument that drilling should be permitted on the ANWR, but ABC News does a good job providing as little journalistic bias as possible when reporting on site in Fairbanks. The information in this interview correlates well with my personal interview with Adrian Herrera, as well as the source Potential Resources in the ANWR 1002 Area. However, the content of this source is not ideal because it mainly provides information on the opinions of Sarah Palin, and she does little to explain or provide statistics that inidicate why she feels the way she does about the ANWR.

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