UCI The Role of The Media in The Federal Administration Essay

1. What can I learn about this essay’s concerns and argument(s) just from an analysis of its title?  2. What can I learn about the way the essay might present and engage its topic by considering the profession of its author, when it was published and where? 3. What are some of the essay’s key terms: people, institutions and organizations, places, dates, court cases, laws, etc.? 4. What key legal, historical, political, environmental, social and/or cultural problem(s) does the essay address? 5. Describe the key players and staging involved in the problem’s production: 1) Who are the players who create and perpetuate the problem(s) and what stakes do they have in doing so? How are these individuals tied to laws, reports, court decisions, individuals, institutions, policies, and/or mores that caused or led to the problem?  2) Who suffers from the problem and how? 6. What is the essay’s main argument or arguments? 7. Who might disagree with the author’s arguments and the evidence she uses to make them and why? (If you cannot find disagreement, do you think it is because the evidence the essay uses is overwhelmingly convincing? Explain). 8. Do I have questions that I need to answer before I feel adequately prepared to evaluate this essay’s argument and evidence? If so, what are they? If not, what impact did this essay have on me, the reader?