1.  Celebrity & Political Sex Scandal By: Breanna Rack

2. Topic Pitch  Topic: Sex Scandal  Focus: Politicians vs. Celebrity  Target: News coverage of scandal  Method: Content and Discourse analysis  Goals:  To look at the construction of sex scandal  To look at the differences in construction between Politicians and Celebrities by news media.

3. Literature Review  Scandal and Media  Scandal elicits a public response  Television & Internet can mass broadcast scandal  Scandal and Celebrity  Public takes offenses personally because they assume they know the celebrity  Scandal and Politician  Shortcomings are used by competition  4 Attributes: Social Cost, Realm of Transgression, Magnitude of Publicity, and Political Impact

4. ORR’s: Content & Discourse Analysis Celebrities  Kristen Stewart & Robert Pattinson  Brad Pitt & Jennifer Aniston  Tiger Woods & Elin Nordegren  Jude Law & Sienna Miller  LeAnne Rhimes & Eddie Cibrian  Tony Parker and Eva Longoria  Ryan Phillippe & Reese Witherspoon  David Letterman and Regina Lasko Politicians  Eliot Spitzer  Newt Gringrich  Bill Clinton  Mark Sandford  John Edwards  Arnold Schwartzeneger  Anthony Weiner  David Petreus

5. Discussion  Interested in celebrity gossip magazines  Rhetoric & Marriage  Rhetoric & Career  Differences in construction  Increases media interest and viciousness with these cases  Consistency with sources