KREVOS Journal#6

Okay, so I skipped a few blogs because I wanted to get this one don tonight. One, thing I learned is that the Anchorage Daily News used disaster narratives to portray the spill while also getting their attention. I think Exxon was trying to naturalize the spill to deflect attention from the media. Okay note: Disaster narratives were used by every major news source at this time. I guess it was used as the most important technique by mainstream media at the time. One similarity that I see is that almost everyone besides Exxon publicly says that the  so called "clean-up efforts" were futile. The notion of it was just Exxon trying to get good publicity is being strengthened. I thoroughly enjoyed the reading. Not only did it talk about the spill but  there was Alaska Native's subsistence needs and a few other interesting tidbits. Also, Exxon is being portrayed as the "bad guy" in most of these readings, and it's not that I don't agree. It's just that they're getting a lot of hate for trying to save their own skins. I'm not saying that they did enough to help put or that they did all that they could, I think they could have done a lot more. They knew that those clean up efforts weren't helping, all of that time, money, and energy could have been diverted to something more efficient.