Hiskes Articles

The three Hiskes articles all discuss Obama’s decision to loosen restrictions on offshore drilling on the east coast. In the second article, the broad discourse seems to be centered on why Obama is choosing to loosen these restrictions. The major “signs” or interpretations of the discourse seem to be that either Obama is loosening the restrictions to encourage republican support of clean energy legislation, or that Obama is siding with the conservative resistance to clean energy. As the Corfee-Morlot article discussed, such interpretations are usually absorbed by the general public (and thus represented within people’s own minds) as “tidbits” or “sound bytes”. I suppose this article’s versions of such sound bytes could be “compromise” and “drill, baby, drill,” with the former representing the interpretation that Obama is attempting to compromise for support of clean energy legislation, and the latter representing the interpretation that Obama is siding with conservative clean energy resistance.

-Mollie