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The Kennedy Assassination Homepage places the argument that those that purport conspiracist theories or ideologies are actively involved in layering misinformation in respect to the truth of Kennedy’s assassination. A biased believer in the “official” evidence, such as the Warren Commission Reports, that declares that assassination was the work of a lone gunman and that gunman was Lee Harvey Oswald, reaches this conclusion. McAdams superficially presents his site as a spectrum of ideological possibilities though in fact taints the electronic text with his own rhetoric.
John Locke offers a reason for this approach:
To be as objective as possible, a scholar must acknowledge contradictory views, if only to rebut them. It is not enough to state why one is correct. One must also state why competing views are incorrect, else the reader may be misled into believing the author's views are not in dispute. Conspiracy authors omit much of the context of their evidence, only it is usually for worse motives than concealing controversy. It is more often to make the evidence sound more sinister than it is.
McAdams’ presentation is rather basic in its simple html (hypertext markup language) design not interested in the more sophisticated languages of sgml (standard generalised markup language) or xml (extensible markup langue). The presented concern of McAdams is simple, that his argument is established across all aspects of his site and in ding so his site must be interacted with as prescribed. There were no elements of play that I could ascertain, McAdams’ site is solely purpose driven. Kennedy’s assassination is analogised as drama that has been contextualised and interpreted so that the narrative is submerged under layers of theory.
The rhetoric application of hypertext enables McAdams to support his argument with meaning supplied by extensive research. The hypertext McAdams displays is informative but not informational. As McAdams believes the data smog of information submerges the truth, surely his exhaustive contribution adds to this smog. McAdams use of hypertext can be seen as intertextual as it draws meaning from previous historical works and electronic texts and also illustrative of his claim.
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