“Breaking news: The use of Rhetoric”
I. Introduction
a. News segments uses all the Rhetoric to catch the audience attentions.
i. They use pathos to make the audience make feel, happy, sad, in danger. ii. Always bring experts to bring in more depth, they usually have been spent years researching that same subject. This brings credibility to the news segment called ethos. iii. Logos is being shown by providing graphs indicating that type of thing has been occurring more often.
b. Thesis- Based on the three videos, it is cleared that the news segment demonstrates rhetoric the best.
II. Body
a. Transition: Some may argue that the “Drunk History: Claudette Colvin & Rosa Parks” video demonstrates the best because there is a strong sense of ethos. …show more content…
Transition: others may argue that the “Drunk History: John Adams vs. Thomas Jefferson” Video demonstrates pathos best.
i. Both Adams and Jefferson didn’t wanted people to vote for them so they made false statements about their opponents, in order for people not to vote for them.
1. In the video “Drunk History: John Adams vs Thomas Jefferson” by Comedy Central ii. Adams and Jefferson wanted to be presidents because they had different views regarding the constitution. They each tried to persuade the audience to vote for them and not the other.
d. Pathos was used in the form of fear when Adams stated that if Jefferson was elected there would be more murders. Anger was used to show how Jefferson lashed out as a result of Adams previous statement about …show more content…
“In appeal to fear creates a sense of fear in the audience and connects its argument to resolving the fear.”(Pg.607) “Usually, this means telling the audience something that they did not previously know and that, once known, elicits anger.”(Pg.607)
1. Austin, Michael. “Reading the world: Ideas that matter”. 2nd Edition. 549-673. Print. ii. If Adams is president there will not be murders. Adams did not tell people he had male and female sexual organs kept it secret.
e. Transition: Some people may say that the third video “Breaking News: some bullshit happening” did not demonstrate rhetoric enough.
i. There was no one rhetoric that stood out to the audience.
1. In the news segment by Onion News Network “ Breaking News: Some bullshit happening” ii. It is not an accurate example of rhetoric because no real news segment would use it.
f. In the video “Breaking News: Some bullshit happening” it demonstrates all three forms of rhetoric clearly.
i. By bringing in an expert on the subject they demonstrated ethos because that lends credibility to their story. The graphs represented the data collected over the years that provided logos to the story. The emails from the viewers expressing their opinion on the story provided
I. Introduction
a. News segments uses all the Rhetoric to catch the audience attentions.
i. They use pathos to make the audience make feel, happy, sad, in danger. ii. Always bring experts to bring in more depth, they usually have been spent years researching that same subject. This brings credibility to the news segment called ethos. iii. Logos is being shown by providing graphs indicating that type of thing has been occurring more often.
b. Thesis- Based on the three videos, it is cleared that the news segment demonstrates rhetoric the best.
II. Body
a. Transition: Some may argue that the “Drunk History: Claudette Colvin & Rosa Parks” video demonstrates the best because there is a strong sense of ethos. …show more content…
Transition: others may argue that the “Drunk History: John Adams vs. Thomas Jefferson” Video demonstrates pathos best.
i. Both Adams and Jefferson didn’t wanted people to vote for them so they made false statements about their opponents, in order for people not to vote for them.
1. In the video “Drunk History: John Adams vs Thomas Jefferson” by Comedy Central ii. Adams and Jefferson wanted to be presidents because they had different views regarding the constitution. They each tried to persuade the audience to vote for them and not the other.
d. Pathos was used in the form of fear when Adams stated that if Jefferson was elected there would be more murders. Anger was used to show how Jefferson lashed out as a result of Adams previous statement about …show more content…
“In appeal to fear creates a sense of fear in the audience and connects its argument to resolving the fear.”(Pg.607) “Usually, this means telling the audience something that they did not previously know and that, once known, elicits anger.”(Pg.607)
1. Austin, Michael. “Reading the world: Ideas that matter”. 2nd Edition. 549-673. Print. ii. If Adams is president there will not be murders. Adams did not tell people he had male and female sexual organs kept it secret.
e. Transition: Some people may say that the third video “Breaking News: some bullshit happening” did not demonstrate rhetoric enough.
i. There was no one rhetoric that stood out to the audience.
1. In the news segment by Onion News Network “ Breaking News: Some bullshit happening” ii. It is not an accurate example of rhetoric because no real news segment would use it.
f. In the video “Breaking News: Some bullshit happening” it demonstrates all three forms of rhetoric clearly.
i. By bringing in an expert on the subject they demonstrated ethos because that lends credibility to their story. The graphs represented the data collected over the years that provided logos to the story. The emails from the viewers expressing their opinion on the story provided