Is Kaleigh Woger's Unpaid Internship Really Exist?

There has been a significant amount of debate around unpaid internships. Kaleigh Rogers and Andrew Lovesey, both of whom work as journalists, argue either side of the debate of whether unpaid internships in journalism should exist. Overall, Kaleigh Roger’s argument that Unpaid internships mean journalism is just for well-off elite was much more convincing, due to her evidence being more current and given and tone of the article being more passionate compared to Andrew Lovesey’s piece which argued that ending unpaid internships hurts the media and discriminates against self-educated journalists which used old evidence and had a disgruntled tone. Roger’s evidence was more convincing than Lovesey’s because it is taking into consideration, the modern aspects of the debate surrounding unpaid internships. In the Mind Wide Open by Jean Prinsen, it outlines that evidence needs to be “appropriate and current” to the argument in which it is supporting. (Prinsen). In Roger’s argument she, mentions that she herself was “[she] simply …show more content…
She presents her argument in a way that is uplifting because she enforces the idea that interning is a valuable experience but unpaid internships are doing more harm than good and explains why by explaining why she cares about the issue. She ends her argument by saying that “eliminating unpaid internships just makes it a fairer fight.” (Roger, par 10). This statement is the accumulation of the passion that is expressed throughout the text because it is connecting with readers emotions. This use of tone makes her argument more convincing because it connects with her readers emotions she is able to create a sense of unity because she makes the reader feel like they can be a part of the right side of the issue by making the workforce more equal for