Think about where to draw the line between appropriate and inappropriate advertising techniques. The analysis will be similar to analyzing an editorial piece, but first you will have to do more work to fill in a lot of missing details. Cartoons often advocate some position and provide some hints of how supporting arguments would go, but they never present fully articulated arguments. You will have to identify the cartoonist s position and explain how you think the arguments would run based on what the cartoon says. Fill in the missing details for the cartoon as well as you can.
Many songs clearly advocate political or social positions.
Identify the songwriter s position, then construct the arguments in some detail based on what you find in the lyric. Make the best case you can for the songwriter based on what you find in the lyric. Then analyze it as you would an editorial piece. There are two options here. You will analyze the sameness of the major news outlets, track down cases in which they get their news from the same source, and find out what parent companies own them.