Blog #2

a. " But if who I am matters less maybe what I say will matter more. "( McCloud, 37)

In my opinion, this is an interesting statement.

In the case of McCloud's comic , I paid so little attention to the messenger .My fascination was with the message itself. When McCloud decided to draw himself more in detail on page 36, I started to focus on him. Immediately I wondered to myself: Is he from Seattle? What a strange thought. It was as if he became a person, an individual I started to wonder about. This distracted me from the message.
Isn't this similar to the public relationship with famous movie stars? A big movie star's presence is enough for me to go see a movie. I might not know anything about the content of that particular movie, but if Brad Pit and Robert Redford are in it I'll go. My unconscious assumption is that the movie will be interesting and worth seeing. The popularity of the messenger helps me make the decision or choice to participate in some event, but also it can become a major distraction from the message that is being presented. The character portrayed by the actor or actress should overshadow their public persona. Or their public personality will overshadow the character.

b. Logical fallacy: Katie Couric reports on Iraq war every week, she knows a lot about the war. The assumption that Katie Couric knows everything about the war is based on her job as an anchor. Just because she reads the news from the teleprompter doesn't necessarily say anything of her knowledge ,or luck of it, about any given subject.

c.If ever there was an idea custom-made for Jay Leno monologue, this was it: All detainees at Guantanamo bay do receive universal health care. Isn't that like giving bail out loans to big corporate banks while letting the small business fail? Whatever happened to federal judgement?

I happened to sympathize with the choice to provide health care for everyone, even for people who might not have respect for another human life. I believe health care is a basic human right.