Exercise in Class

By picking apart “Lynch Law” in class, it allowed me to better understand that reading. I was in Professor Graban’s group and we concluded what different parts of the text were. We found that the text was an example of resisting progress because, although the article explains what is currently happening, it does not solve or help the problem. I also learned what the difference between agency and journalistic agency was. Agency, as Lexi explained in class, refers to the one who acts or has the capacity to act, often a representation of someone or something else. Although Wells is trying to make the problem known and wanting to make changes, this article can be explained to have journalistic agency because it is an article with facts. Journalistic agency is the fact that the article is stating cultural trends or facts to show us or the reader where we are headed next. I would define journalistic agency as not only is it when a subject is acting upon the object but the author does so through statistics and trends that the author presents. This is different than agency because journalistic agency persuades the reader through facts rather than how the text is put together.