In the article “The media exaggerates negative news. This distortion has consequences”(2018), the author Steven Pinker introduces to the general public why the media like to report the negative news and exaggerate it. The author states exaggeration is worse and he explains why it happened. Firstly the author describes what is negative news and he gives some examples of the negative news in history. Then he argues the negative news effects and he believes it is negative forwards to the public. In the last part of the article, the author claims his feelings of negative news and we could know he doesn’t want people to see the more and more negative news reported by the media. The author is very angry about the effects of the negative news, he
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In the first example, the author mentions that “People rank tornadoes as a more common cause of death than asthma, presumably because tornadoes make for better television.”. The author uses statistics numbers between tornadoes and asthma to emphasize people highly ignore what the truly dangerous is. The author suggests that tornadoes have the stronger appeal to the audiences, so tornadoes have mentioned in the television shows many times. That cause people to believe tornadoes are much more harmful than asthma, which kills fewer people than tornadoes. Another example is a poll used by the author, the author said: “a large majority of Americans follow news about Isis closely, and 77% agreed that Islamic militants operating in Syria and Iraq pose a serious threat to the existence or survival of the United States.”. The author uses this example to explain negative news can have the worst effect, which can easily influence the audiences. Therefore, the author indicates that negative news can cause the audiences have the negative mood, that is the reason why people have the sense of fear when they hear the threaten far from their …show more content…
The author is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, so his words are the authority, he will convince readers by his words. The author doesn’t use “I” in the article, which will impact the logical and objective of his words. The author uses strong evidence in the article, but the explanation of his evidence doesn’t very clearly enough. Also, the author doesn’t mention any good effects of the negative news as an opposite side to deeply discuss. The author uses strong evidence is he uses tornadoes as the first example, which is specific and support his idea of why negative news distort people’ view of the world. This example is specific because the author describes that asthma kills thousands of people per year, but as a strong comparison, the tornadoes just kill 50 people per year, but most people believe tornadoes can kill more people. The author uses this example to convince readers why people believe tornadoes can cause more impact than asthma because tornadoes are more attractive than asthma, so it will show frequently in television. The second example is a poll that author mentions to help readers understand the harmful effect of the negative news. The author reports, “Islamic militants operating in Syria and Iraq pose a serious threat to the existence or survival of the United States”, people are fearful of the threaten even that is far away from
In the first example, the author mentions that “People rank tornadoes as a more common cause of death than asthma, presumably because tornadoes make for better television.”. The author uses statistics numbers between tornadoes and asthma to emphasize people highly ignore what the truly dangerous is. The author suggests that tornadoes have the stronger appeal to the audiences, so tornadoes have mentioned in the television shows many times. That cause people to believe tornadoes are much more harmful than asthma, which kills fewer people than tornadoes. Another example is a poll used by the author, the author said: “a large majority of Americans follow news about Isis closely, and 77% agreed that Islamic militants operating in Syria and Iraq pose a serious threat to the existence or survival of the United States.”. The author uses this example to explain negative news can have the worst effect, which can easily influence the audiences. Therefore, the author indicates that negative news can cause the audiences have the negative mood, that is the reason why people have the sense of fear when they hear the threaten far from their …show more content…
The author is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, so his words are the authority, he will convince readers by his words. The author doesn’t use “I” in the article, which will impact the logical and objective of his words. The author uses strong evidence in the article, but the explanation of his evidence doesn’t very clearly enough. Also, the author doesn’t mention any good effects of the negative news as an opposite side to deeply discuss. The author uses strong evidence is he uses tornadoes as the first example, which is specific and support his idea of why negative news distort people’ view of the world. This example is specific because the author describes that asthma kills thousands of people per year, but as a strong comparison, the tornadoes just kill 50 people per year, but most people believe tornadoes can kill more people. The author uses this example to convince readers why people believe tornadoes can cause more impact than asthma because tornadoes are more attractive than asthma, so it will show frequently in television. The second example is a poll that author mentions to help readers understand the harmful effect of the negative news. The author reports, “Islamic militants operating in Syria and Iraq pose a serious threat to the existence or survival of the United States”, people are fearful of the threaten even that is far away from