Wordled Speeches - Case Study 12

I think both Wordle and The Gender Genie are two websites that can be used in good and bad ways for journalism. I definitely believe readers will be interested in which words are used the most in speeches, but I also think that looking at this type of image will give readers a biased view of what was said. They may even decide not to read or listen to the actual speech because they think they know the important parts. These programs manipulate language in such a way that the most used words are the biggest. Just because a word was used often, however, does not make it the most important in a speech. What these programs lack is analysis of the meaning of speeches or stories: That is still the job of the reader.