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Analysis Of Two Hawaiian Women

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NBC News posted an update recently about two women that were lost at sea for up to five months. (Update: as I am turning this in, I see that the story was updated this morning as well. This is the third time the story has been updated, I believe). This story has been told earlier, but those articles were focused on other details like how the women survived, for example. This article dives right into how the two Hawaiian women never used every source possible to get rescued. Right away the article mentions failure of the woman to use their emergency beacon, declared on board Lt. by Scott Carr, United States Coast Guard spokesman. Once this is brought up, the author moves to talk about other things to discredit the fact that the women were …show more content…

One thing to note, however, is that the direct author or reporter from the AP is not named, it just says “by Associated Press.” Three times in this news story does the reporter mention that these sources are telling their information directly to the Associated Press via telephone. I assume they want to show that they got the information themselves from these sources rather than taking the information away from another article; the news is fresh and they’re the ones giving it to viewers. This TV news article seemed a bit persuasive to me. Though it didn’t say a set argument on what it wanted you to believe or side with, it was focused entirely on what the two women said they seemed questionable. It wasn’t that Appel and Fuiava were getting called out, it was the facts they used that gave me this thought. Multiple things that the two said were put into the article as what seemed untruthful or hyperbolic. It seems as if the reporter doesn’t believe the women to the fullest extent. Quoted from the article, “That was after the women reportedly lost their engines” (Associated Press). Rather than saying “after the women lost their engines” the word “reportedly” makes the event possible, but not one-hundred percent believed. There aren’t a ton of questions that I thought about while reading the article that ended up unanswered. My first thought was how the dogs were doing for five months while stuck on a boat. We know who

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