Ch. 4 Visual Rhetoric: Images as Arguments
Question # 4
The question is raised about if the press should photographic images be published in new papers that display death and dying? In Ephron reading. She argues about the cause and effect it is to its consumer, the reader with photographic images of death and dying. The consumer will read an article, but it is the visual persuasion that catches their eye more than the title of the article. Images have a very important role to its viewers. The image of death and dying is very morbid and depressing. It is up to the author to produce a writing to inform the public of the event. It can offer the consumer have a negative or positive effect photographic depictions. A consumer would rather read, …show more content…
The majority of actual newspaper readers are the older generation, our grandparents. Technology has taken the traditional means of printed news. The mass media still has censorship to images that are place on the internet. In many articles there are still a concentration on appeals of emotions and small portions of graphic depictions. The writer gives the logos, persuasion to continue reading and appeals their pathos. Is providing a photograph of the scene of motor vehicle accident can offer a visual effects of what type of car or truck that was involved. Sure it does, but the depictions of the injured or deceased are excluded. The reasoning behind censorship is not to sensationalize is the event of death. The news does print or produce images of mangled up cars taken at the scene, but leaves out the victims of the shot. In this type of event, the families must be notified first, before the public. I for one, would want to be notified before it gets published on the 5 o’clock news. Then have my coworkers or friends tell me that my loved one died. The dignity of death and dying has changed over the years. The privacy and respect around it has changed. It is …show more content…
To evaluate each photograph to have modest censorship to the public may change some consumer’s reactions. When the Rodney King beatings were on live news feed. People were outraged about the event happening before their own eyes. It enraged other groups to respond to the actions of his assault. Did it change the editor or anchorman to stop the coverage of the story? No it didn’t. The event was repeated for days and weeks. The event was riveting and gripping, but at what cost to the consumers? The news station and newspapers were looking at profit. The monetary gain at someone else’s
Question # 4
The question is raised about if the press should photographic images be published in new papers that display death and dying? In Ephron reading. She argues about the cause and effect it is to its consumer, the reader with photographic images of death and dying. The consumer will read an article, but it is the visual persuasion that catches their eye more than the title of the article. Images have a very important role to its viewers. The image of death and dying is very morbid and depressing. It is up to the author to produce a writing to inform the public of the event. It can offer the consumer have a negative or positive effect photographic depictions. A consumer would rather read, …show more content…
The majority of actual newspaper readers are the older generation, our grandparents. Technology has taken the traditional means of printed news. The mass media still has censorship to images that are place on the internet. In many articles there are still a concentration on appeals of emotions and small portions of graphic depictions. The writer gives the logos, persuasion to continue reading and appeals their pathos. Is providing a photograph of the scene of motor vehicle accident can offer a visual effects of what type of car or truck that was involved. Sure it does, but the depictions of the injured or deceased are excluded. The reasoning behind censorship is not to sensationalize is the event of death. The news does print or produce images of mangled up cars taken at the scene, but leaves out the victims of the shot. In this type of event, the families must be notified first, before the public. I for one, would want to be notified before it gets published on the 5 o’clock news. Then have my coworkers or friends tell me that my loved one died. The dignity of death and dying has changed over the years. The privacy and respect around it has changed. It is …show more content…
To evaluate each photograph to have modest censorship to the public may change some consumer’s reactions. When the Rodney King beatings were on live news feed. People were outraged about the event happening before their own eyes. It enraged other groups to respond to the actions of his assault. Did it change the editor or anchorman to stop the coverage of the story? No it didn’t. The event was repeated for days and weeks. The event was riveting and gripping, but at what cost to the consumers? The news station and newspapers were looking at profit. The monetary gain at someone else’s