Analyzing The Onion's Article 'Magnasoles'

The satirical way MagnaSoles explains their product adheres to their audience. During the colloquy, the speaker describes how, “it’s a total foot-rejuvenation system”(The Onion). The clever combination of words describes their product in a logical manner, and appeals to the attention of the consumer. The use of logos adds to the ridiculous message the company portrays by making the article fair good quality. Additionally, The Onion goes on to state the canny use of literature.

Clay Shirky who wrote Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable (1993) argues that society doesn’t need newspapers society needs journalism to save society. Shirky supports this argument by giving a historical background to the problems newspapers face and how the problems have developed over time and the solutions society has came up with. The blogger concludes that in order for journalism to go farther new models must be created in place of past molds. Shirky directs this blog toward the current and future generations in attempt to motivate new models and methods of journalism.

To begin, the article achieves a satirical tone through devious diction and illogical reasoning that can be found in advertisements enticing consumers to a product. Touching light on the consumer population, many consumers are easily swayed by scientific terminology. The article mocks advertisers by stating, “MagnaSoles employ a brand-new, cutting-edge form of pseudoscience known as Terranometry.” By implementing intelligent-sounding words, a product is more compelling and can make consumers fall in the realm of absurdity. This reveals the crafty and cunning tactics of marketers and their knowledge of a consumer population. The article also uses words such as “pain-nuclei” and “kilofrankels” to satirize marketers use of false, inaccurate terminology, which in effect, leads to the false promotion of their product. Correspondingly, the illogical rationale posed by marketers is shown when the article asserts that “MagnaSoles utilize the healing power of crystals to stimulate dead foot cells with vibrational biofeedback...restoring the foot’s natural bio-flow.” The article

Do you have sore feet and feel like there is nothing that can stop or prevent your foot pain? MagnaSoles are new shoe inserts for people just like you who have sore feet! Did you fall for these tactics? Companies use these marketing tactics everyday to convince people just like you to buy their product. In The Onion’s press release, the author demonstrates the use of the rhetorical triangle, bold diction and syntax, and vivid imagery to explain how Americans fall for marketing tactics companies use.

Would you prefer to experience a total foot-rejuvenation system that even surpasses alternative to expensive methods to heal your foot? Developed by Dr. Arthur Bluni, the pseudoscientist who refined the product for Massillon-based Integrated Products, created MagnaSoles, a unique shoe insert that “takes advantage of the semi-plausible medical technique known as reflexology… Enabling your soles to heal your entire body as you walk.” This article is a mock press release from The Onion, a publication devoted to humor and satire, which introduces rhetorical strategies such as logical appeal, pseudoscientific diction, and repetition to satirize how products are displayed to consumers. This article productively utilize these elements to parody nearly

During Cola Wars, a critic from the Onion, which is a satirical website. The Onion makes a reference to the Cold War, but it is about the Cola Wars, this is a written article,” Ad Industry Veterans Honored With Cola War Memorial,” discusses. The purpose of this article is to criticize those who make simple, unimportant things become an over exaggerated situation when there are bigger problems out there. The intended audience is for those who make irrelevant things bigger so he uses emotions and client testimonials. The attitude towards the audience is mocking the audience and burlesque which these both things are satirical. Therefore, the Onion uses the rhetorical devices of client testimonials, distortion and hyperbole.

In the effort to appeal to credibility, the writer for The Onion utilizes ethos. The author talks about “real” scientist to boost the product. “What makes MagnaSoles different from other insoles is the way it harnesses the power of magnetisms to properly align the biomagnetic field around your foot,” said Dr. Arthur Bluni, the pseudoscientist who developed the product for Massillon-based Integrated Products.” When the author uses examples like this, we are just getting lied to and hopefully influenced. What is really happening is they are saying lies and talks about how these “scientist” are suggested their products. The author gives credibility to science and how their product heals them. “Special resonator nodules implanted at key spots in MagnaSoles convert the wearer’s own energy to match the Earth’s natural vibrational rate of 32.805 kilofrankels.” This develops the theory that using weird scientific words will make their product more believable. It is false and they are just trying to confuse the consumer

In this article released from The Onion the writer uses satirical strategies such as sarcasm, humor, and mockery to show how easily customers fall into the outrageous claims made by marketers.

The article titled "The man with the snow job" appears in the Opinion Pages, The New York Times. Author, Gail Collins, opens her article with the question: “Who is to blame for this weather?” which hooks readers’ attention and makes them curious about what they are going to read. In her writing, Collins talks about the current snowstorm in the United States and how it is used for everyone’s advantage. She also points out how government officials such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Al Gore, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama use the occasion of snowfall for their own purposes. The author borrows images of global warming effects to discuss some controversial problems in the society these days. She applies the following elements to establish the

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In an ever changing world we have seen the number and complexity of languages become reduced. In a Wall Street Journal article entitled What the World Will Speak in 2115, John H. McWhorter advocates for the world to see these changes as necessary and a way for communication worldwide to become more efficient and simplified. McWhorter shows how language has been streamlined for centuries as a way for citizens to adapt rather than viewed as an extinction of culture. Modern English is likely to become the dominant language worldwide but more so for the fact that it can be easily learned and is open to transformation with the times. Despite the fears of a world where lingual diversity is reduced, McWhorter suggests that there will still be variation to promote culture and communication with people from all backgrounds will be easier. The following is a summary and analysis of McWhorter’s main points describing the simplification of language. Following the summary of main points will be a hypothetical situation in what the world language could consist of 100 years from now.

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