In Last Week Tonight’s episode on Net Neutrality John Oliver tried to appeal to the audience’s pathos and logos, or the emotional and logical sides of their personality. This episode for example, judging by the five points of basic source evaluation: accuracy, authority, and is mostly credible.The most evident appeal here is the appeal to emotion. Oliver’s number one goal on his show is to make the audience laugh. Yes, the show tries to get the news of certain situations to the public, but it does so in a humorous way that makes the information much easier to take. he asks his viewers do you see the potential of the FCC's change in the Internet to be controlled by companies that would establish a fast lane and successfully crash of equal playing field that the Internet is known for today. John Oliver crafts a well developed argument, but also uses fun and humor to address the main issues with FCC's plan to create this Fastrak Internet scheme.
John Oliver sets up his episode by joking about how the Internet has increased access for everyone to search whatever you want from cat pictures of what he says buying a case of coyote urine. However, though the humor makes the information easier to watch and listen to, it …show more content…
This, however, is not too much of a bad thing and doesn’t detract from his credibility at all because as a news anchor he must be able to get the point across in a limited amount of time. The case of him using guilt by association is a different thing altogether. In this episode Oliver claims that because the new FCC chairman used to be the head of the lobbying arm for a cable company that it instantly makes him a terrible choice to be the new FCC chairman. While this choice does raise suspicions, it doesn’t mean that he won’t do what’s right in his new position. This makes it look like Oliver is attacking him personally because of his past, which absolutely impacts this source’s
John Oliver sets up his episode by joking about how the Internet has increased access for everyone to search whatever you want from cat pictures of what he says buying a case of coyote urine. However, though the humor makes the information easier to watch and listen to, it …show more content…
This, however, is not too much of a bad thing and doesn’t detract from his credibility at all because as a news anchor he must be able to get the point across in a limited amount of time. The case of him using guilt by association is a different thing altogether. In this episode Oliver claims that because the new FCC chairman used to be the head of the lobbying arm for a cable company that it instantly makes him a terrible choice to be the new FCC chairman. While this choice does raise suspicions, it doesn’t mean that he won’t do what’s right in his new position. This makes it look like Oliver is attacking him personally because of his past, which absolutely impacts this source’s