Clare Boothe Luce's Speech

Transition. Clara didn’t let her age or resources get in the way of her goals. She earned her own money to pay for her books by sewing and writing letters for neighbor who didn’t know how to read or write.

As society advances and the opinions of the general public change several press outlets work to stay up to date with the changing times. However, in an attempt to stay modernized journalists often times sacrifice their integrity to stay favorable in the public eye. These degrading actions, often times sacrifice the true news for more appealing news. Clare Boothe Luce, American journalist and politician, gives a controversial speech to the Women’s National Press Club condemning her female audience. Moreover, as a female addressing an audience of women she is able to give her true opinion and is able to honestly critique her colleagues. She persuades her audience by preparing them for the criticism by reiterating that she is the guest, by praising journalism, and by logically providing reasoning that the journalistic view must change for the good of the general public.

Her speech was mostly drawn from her experience of racism, racial injustice and poor treatment of women when she lived in the South. Her belief in the ending of these injustices was based on her religion and belief in Christianity and then natural rights of all individuals. Her motives to write the speech was based on changing the thinking of other people into acknowledging that all humans were equal despite their race, gender or ideologies. They were therefore supposed to be treated as the same irrespective of their social classes. Some of her personal details could have influenced the speech that she wrote. Among them is gender since she was a woman and her beliefs in Christianity through reading the Bible that championed that all people were the same

In 1960, American journalist and politician Clare Boothe Luce speaks to journalists at the Women’s National Press Club. She brings up the topic of integrity. Not only does integrity affect journalists, but also the media as a whole. From the beginning, she is straightforward with the audience, she is going to give them hell. She goes on to say that everyone in the audience will be revolted, but should listen through. This prepares the room full of female journalists to feel attacked by her criticisms of the American press. Luce argues that integrity needs to be restored in the media, to do this she appeals to their values while using a defensive tone along with a positive one, while also creating

From the beginning she pulls the readers attention, she uses a metaphor “Eventually being perfect day after day, year after year, became like always carrying a backpack filled with bricks on my back”(Quindlen, 296). This metaphor is the most significant part of her speech as she continues to refer to this metaphor throughout the speech. She uses this for the purpose of appealing to the audience in a meaningful, and personal way, creating a connection between her and the audience as most students, not only college students, can probably relate to the feeling of being heavily put down by something , not necessarily what she is talking about. Her use of pathos is what makes the speech so appealing and interesting, because she makes it so relatable and easy to understand.

Knowing that the audience connects to the press, since they are all journalists, bashing their industry as a whole will cause change. This persuasion technique causes emotion inflicted because of the statement being so broad, without any exceptions.From the quote used at the beginning of the essay, Archetype is also seen. Some journalists may view meaning of the press to not tell the truth, but bring entertainment in news. Not every person thinks press speaks about truth, like Luce, in fact press has a reputation for having false and dramatic stories. Luce uses both devices for one thing, to bring change. With the audience emotional and against her stereotype with the press, change will happen to better the system in the end. After all, the room full of journalists spoken to might see the press as a perfect system. With hundreds of stories and news to keep the people informed, press does promote mass communication. Before the press minimal communication resulted because there was not a way for people across the world to know what was going on. Press is a milestone in communications and eventually led to more advanced systems like the computer and cell phones. Luce evokes the audience to feel passionate about the business they work in and determination to not let the press die, since Clare states that the place press appears to be in represents negativity.

I feel like her aim was for every single person in the audience and she wanted them to know what African-American women go through on daily basis. She wanted everyone to feel the pain and why the violence against African-American women go unnoticed in the media politics and many more. This documentary is the advocacy of

Kelley does not stay in that mode for too long, in fact she continues to make shifts between various forms of discourse to perform a different purpose. The next mode that she uses is that of narration. This particular mode is extremely effective in this speech to pull at the heartstrings of her audience. Which is clearly evident in

It is not always easy to look someone in the face and address their faults. Yet, Clare Booth Luce’s introduction of her speech is straight to the point and effective through her appeals to ethos and pathos as well as various tones to do just that. The purpose of her speech is to criticize the tendency of the American Press to sacrifice their journalistic integrity in favor of the public demand for sensationalist stores. In a number of ways, Luce is successful in setting up her speech’s message and working towards cushioning her audience for her upcoming

Knowing this, she takes her experience and uses it to write this piece and uses it to spread her message and her feelings toward the topic.

Through Truth’s numerous rhetorical questions used in this speech, she has made a strong impact on her audience. Each question either precedes or follows a strong truth. By questioning herself, and being able to answer each question, Truth shows her understanding of society, and the mistreatment of women. She never wanted the audience to answer her questions, because the honest answers should be obvious.All of her hardships as a slave, and she is a women. When discussing intellect, she even asks, “What’s that got to do with women’s rights or negroes rights?” Her rhetorical questions were a unique way of bringing up obvious points, and forced her listeners to fill in the answers themselves. It would have grabbed their

To read of Nellie Bly, one would come to think the woman a pioneer in journalism; a hero for women's rights; and an American icon. These beliefs would be true if not for the fact that Bly was so much more. She was much more a woman, much more a writer, much more a hero and much more than most could ever be. Bly not only took on a world of injustice and stereotypes, but conquered it and changed the way the field of journalism works today.

That both genders have common ground as people. She goes on to describe how society is becoming more progressive, that whether or not people want to admit it, changes are coming and as time goes on women will be granted more equality. This change was already being seen but just needed further progression.

This appeals to the rhetorical strategy ethos. This helps pull the reader's attention in and makes them believe the claims she is making. Having first hand accounts of this experience allows her article to connect with the readers so they know what she has gone through. The audience can see the author's credibility through this making it more believable. Showing us her side of the story lets us know that these problems are real. Explaining to the audience examples of this in everyday life and language makes the audience feel like something must be done.

This is a speech that can be classified as a political text. It has autobiographical overtones as the author is living in first person what she refers to in her words. This speech was delivered in Hartford (Connecticut) on November 13, 1913.