In the story from The Onion Frustrated Obama Sends Nation Rambling 75,000-Word E-Mail, they are parodying the idea that Obama is a terrible president who is unfit to be running the country. Clearly, everyone has a right to his or her own opinion, but Fox News has always taken their conservative Republican views to the extreme over and over again, such as in the segment Fox News Blames Obama for Jay-Z and Young Jeezy Lyrics. The anchorwoman in this segment acts as though she is appalled that rappers are cussing and, of course, because they are black like Obama, their actions and words are reflected by Obama himself, who actually had nothing to do with the incident. Gatekeeping, the process in which information is filtered before its publication, and agenda setting, the practice of supporting and twisting certain stories in order to adhere to a certain viewpoint, are both blatantly obvious here. Fox News' agenda is against Democrats and Obama, while The Onion article is a critique of this.
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