TOW #14 Pitching Obamacare to a Tough Crowd in Mississipi by Mark Mardell

     Since we live in the United States we usually just use news sources that are in easy acess such as news stations and newspapers. It is not very often that we, as Americans, get to see our problems through the perspectives of other nations. BBC just recently posted an article by Mark Mardell entitled Pitching

Obamacare to a Tough Crowd in Mississipi. Mark Mardell is the North American Editor for BBC, and wrote the article on Obamacare that was mainly focused on its effect in Mississippi. The purpose of the article was to educate readers about the actual effects of Obamacare. The article was directed towards an audience that was not American, because Mardell constantly defined certain facts that to Americans would be common knowledge, such as the state that Mississippi is currently in. Not to say that this article could not be beneficial to an American, such as myself. I personally learned some interesting facts about Obamacare, but that would make sense, since I have not fully followed the situation. Mardell was able to achieve his purpose by including a variety of sources to assist in getting a full picture of what the situation in Mississippi. The article had quotes from all sorts of people ranging from politicians to just average citizens. This since I have not followed Obamacare that Intently. To achieve his purpose Mardell used a strategy that was extremely effective in the portraying Obamacare, because most likely the audience of BBC are not in direct contact with anyone who has to be dealing with Obamacare. I think Mardell did achieve his purpose in some ways. I found the article to be slightly biased towards those against Obamacare, but overall I thought that for someone who is not from America it was an educational article.