Taking an Approach

            After reading Harris’s “Taking an Approach” I think that taking an approach I taking a piece of work and writing it with a new life.  It is giving the same story but with a different approach and or audience.  Harris gives an example about how most of the ideas behind Shakespeare’s plays where taken from already used ideas.  Shakespeare just added a new twist to the story.  Harris also writes, “Think of Aretha Franklin turning Otis Redding’s macho demand for “Respect” into an assertion of female independence, or Jimi Hendrix interpreting the “Star-Spangled Banner” as an anthem for destruction.”  These artists all took something that was already around and re-worked it into something new with a new meaning.  When reading the Times I find it hard to find it hard to find a good example of this concept.  I see the times as writing a story in respect to the way that it has happened and I also find it more or less unbiased.  In comparison to other sites though we can find examples of “taking an approach” After reading a blog site like the Huffington Post we can see that the Post takes a story about a subject and portrays it in a different way that the times would.  The Post talks a lot about a rally that is occurring in Washington D.C. in order for Obama not to sign the legislation that will allow a pipeline to be built between the U.S. and Canada. The focus is on global warming and the Post is focusing on how people feel about the pipeline and a lot of anger about the pipeline.  The Times however focuses of the news factor of the story.  They talk about how it is a tough decision for Obama politically.  I didn’t really see any mention of the protestors or global warming at all, both sites took a different approach to the pipeline legislation.