The Washington Times Rhetoric Summary

The editorial “Pimping Teenage Girls” by The Washington Times is an editorial used to show the audience that females are often hypersexualized in the media. The author used lots of connotation and bias to prove their point and show others that sexual exploitation of females on TV needs to stop. Rhetoric was used lightly in this editorial, the author not overly using it. A common form of rhetoric that was found was pathos, and this was one form that the author used a lot. For example in paragraph 9 the sentence states that “viewers themselves must let the networks know that the exploitation of children is unacceptable by turning off the trash, dialing a decent channel when they can find one, and reading a newspaper, magazine or book during prime time when ratings are made” (The Washington Times 9). As stated above the type of rhetoric used here was pathos, as the author is using it to try and get the audience to ‘turn off the trash’ and go do something else that is actually ‘decent.’ The effect this has on the audience is negative, considering the author is using many negative words in this sentence, and is clearly trying to force the audience away from certain shows by referring to them as trash. An example of another form of …show more content…
An example of strong word connotation is the phrase “Hollywood loves to preach” (The Washington Times 1). The word ‘preach’ is a word that can be used to dramatize the way Hollywood does and says things. The effect this type of connotation has on the audience is one that could make the reader wonder ‘what does Hollywood love to preach about?’ The word choice used in that sentence is both equally negative and positive depending on how one looks at it. The next form of connotation is in the phrase “turning off the trash” (The Washington Times 9). The word ‘trash’ is highly negatively connotated, and can have a negative effect on the