FOX NEWS: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/03/20/first-daughter-ivanka-trump-gets-west-wing-office.html
An article from Fox News, a notoriously conservative new source, released an article titled, "First daughter Ivanka Trump gets West Wing office" on March 20th, 2017. The article opens with a picture of Ivanka smiling and greeting patrons before going to an event. Having a photo of Ivanka interacting with everyday people further emphasizes her friendly and ‘person for the people’ kind of image. The article is particularly defensive on the controversy surrounding Ivanka’s position in the White House considering all of the people quoted here come from a conservative background as you’ll soon see below where the article's sources are listed. Unlike the article by the Chicago Tribune where both sides are mentioned, but I must note that the Tribune article is also biased in its own ways.
The framing of this article that served to protect the ethics of the decision of putting Ivanka in the White House is also seen through the articles language and discussion of her cutting off major ties with her clothing brand, as well as listing off all of the reasons why Trumps decision to put his daughter in the White House was both legal and ethical. To continue putting Ivanka in a good light, the article ends with her new book being promoted titled, "Women Who Work," which perpetuates that she wants to inspire young women, which could be seen as a way to deflect her father’s controversies surrounding women and women’s rights during his campaign.
This article's sources were: "a senior White House official," "Jamie Gorelick, an attorney and ethics adviser for Ivanka Trump," "a person with knowledge of Ivanka Trump's thinking, who requested anonymity to discuss private conversations," "the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel," "Richard Painter, a University of Minnesota law professor who served as President George W. Bush's chief White House lawyer on ethics," "Attorney Andrew Herman, who has advised lawmakers on ethics issues," and "Fox News' John Roberts and the Associated Press" also contributed to the information and quotes shown in this article.
CHICAGO TRIBUNE: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-ivanka-trump-white-house-job-20170323-story.html
This article is a commentary titled, “Commentary: Ivanka Trump's White House job is unethical and dangerous”. So right off the bat, the reader knows that since this is a commentary the writers will be bringing up facts that may align more with their views. The article’s first photo is of Ivanka and her husband, who is also a senior advisor to Donald Trump (paid position), listening in on “a news conference with President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the East Room of the White House in Washington.” Having a photo like this shows and proves that family members of Trump are already deeply ingrained in the White House staff. Which, depending on the reader, may anger them, thus, pushing the in some ways, biased framing of this article.
The article provides similar defenses of President Trumps decision to put Ivanka and her husband in the White House as the previous article did. However, as you can probably tell from the title the article also gives many facts and historical accounts of previous Presidents not being able to appoint family members due to ethical issues. For example “listen during a news conference with President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the East Room of the White House in Washington.”
As for sources, the article had some of the same people from the previous article quoted but used historical facts and present day laws to dispute the reasons the previous article gave that said Ivanka and her husband being in the White House is legal and ethical. Wordplay and language also played a big part in framing this article, for example: “violated these standards,” questionable, conflict, and the powerful quote, “inherently compromising loyalty of family relationships and the necessity of genuine expertise in senior government roles are why federal law prohibits nepotism — and why that law explicitly applies to the president,” all plant seeds of doubt in the readers head about the ethicality of this whole situation.
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