agenda+setting

9/29/10 Melanee Wolthuis and Emily Ferris Agenda Setting Assignment

We decided to do politics. Kalamazoo Gazzette, 9/27/10 "Opinion: Doesn't jail sentence just increase taxpayers' costs for man who fathered 23 children and owes more than $500,000 in child support?"

In a story by Joyce Pines, she talks about a man who fathered 23 kids by 14 women, and thinks prison time for his child support debt is a waste of the taxpayers' money. He was sentenced to 2 to 4 years in prison and she believes that community service would've been a less expensive and just as effective solution. Her agenda is extremely obvious, she thinks he shouldn't go to jail for his offenses.