American Psyche

I chose this article as I felt that it was a good representation of 'Fake America'.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2007/jul/28/weekend7.weekend1
Saunders satirises the various mistakes made by American journalists.
The first one: 'Father kills bear charging at Son with log' as a reader we are confused. Yet the point that Saunders puts across is the ridiculousness of these stories and the false ideas they put across in the heads of the American youth, from this I draw on the story of 'jon' in the In persuasion nation collection. In this story 'jon/Randy' is dominated by false images of society, in which he rarely has the freedom to explore outside his camp, his confusion over the identity of his mother and even his own name comes solely from advertising. Here Saunders identifies that what we are told, in media and various adverts, doesn't mean that it is true. In this article it is the case with journalism, where American media consistently fails to 'check the facts' therefore a false representation of reality comes out.