Trump's Argument Analysis

This article uses a sarcastic tone in order to appeal to pathos. I honestly really like how the author, Alexandra Petri, states her case. She is basically showing the hypocrisy that exist within the trump administrations ideas of what is important to protect and what is not. They respect object more than the lives of people. This article really does a good job of putting this issue into a visual perspective. Her perspective shows that if you are not on trumps side anything you do is wrong and you are seen as the enemy. I think the article is effective in that it really appeals to emotions of the audience. There isn’t a lot of statistical facts but there are a lot of straightforward examples of recent events that have been in media. Petri does

Mass media is an ever-growing field where millions of people are connected at a constant basis. With that being said opinions and viewpoints are established on a daily basis through the media society reads. Many of these news media sources can be persuasive and have an influence on individual’s opinions. This concept is called framing. While it is related to the concept of agenda setting, framing focuses more on the issue at hand rather than on a particular topic. Framing is an important topic because of its major influence over the choices people make and how they process information. “Goffman stated that there are two distinctions within primary frameworks which are natural and social. Both play the role of helping individuals interpret

The “disturbances of collective order” (Durkheim 1915, 246) or norms with spikes in unemployment and increased competition in labor market could have resulted in what Durkheim referred to as anomic suicide. People’s lives have been greatly impacted and they are uncertain of the future in America. Trump argues that immigrants pose a competition in labor market and he promised to bring jobs back for American workers or the White working class. It’s harder for them to live with the decline of jobs because in the old economic order, White workers have greater opportunities for growth. When their expectation of themselves in the society is threatened, Trump’s promise

The article has multiple authors and while the actual newspaper isn’t well known in the country, the information used is accurate when describing the last mass shootings in the United States.

In paragraph 6, Swenson writes that, “Trump’s words are alarming in their resemblance to the rhetoric from the early 1940s — the same type of rhetoric that led to Roosevelt’s decision to evacuate over 100,000 Japanese Americans,” (1). This piece of evidence uses logos and pathos to support this main point by using facts that are credible as they can be proven. Therefore, it makes you believe what the article is

Lastly, each article differs in the way they reveal their overall purpose. Cohen’s article, for example, puts his main focus towards defending the craft that he has dedicated his entire life to perfecting, along with manipulating his audience into believing a straw man that he set up in his article. The straw man, of course, was President Trump, and Cohen continuously used diatribe in order to lessen the president’s stature. After Cohen had lowered Trump’s credibility, Cohen used a questioning strategy to manipulate his audience even more into thinking that Trump is on the same path as Hitler was under his rule of Nazi Germany. In the end, Cohen’s purpose was directed at persuading his audience into believing that news outlets such as the

The pathos of the article does not make the audience feel a certain emotion, but overall to decide for themselves, and how they feel upon the situation, which is what a news article should do. It is a neutral piece that gives information from key officials tied to the case like John Kerry, the homeland security secretary, the American civil union’s leader, the Immigration’s leaders, and more people that are involved with the order. It does mention words like “Muslim Ban”, but conveys those words in a way that it is not trying to play on emotions just informing of the controversy of the order. In addition, the big idea of the article is to tell of what happened, who was involved and short opinions that are brief among the people who pertain to the situation, and then the article ends not trying to tie other loose knots from speculation. These ideas help the article because with the other articles from CNN and NBC News inserted the opinions as the big ideas instead of the event at hand. It is the exact opposite in this article, which makes it more objectivity because the ideas that are voiced matter to the order. The logos is basic reporting at its finest. Easy to understand, logical, and seemingly neutral towards its readers. Not trying to embellish the situation in either way of what is wrong or right similar to the other articles. The ethos is similar to the other articles with a known author at the helm that gives credit to the officials tied to the article, but does not state a political affiliation, which can be bad or good depending on how you look at it. This seems to add to the article because it does not take a stance, as the other articles did with leaning towards the left-wing perspective. Rhetorically, each of these articles are genuinely good for an audience to read, but some may add pieces to

Media is everywhere nowadays and is an outlet for everyone and anyone in the world to share their opinions. Opinions are nowhere near being the facts, opinions could very easily be twisted facts. That's why people have to be careful with what they see and hear on media. Although you wouldn't think that a newspaper article would be opinion based, it really is. In any public statement there is a bias and a bias is stemmed from one's opinions. At first glance you may think that the media source is solely facts but when you look back on it and dig deeper you get the sense of bias that an author has with their diction and their use of rhetorical devices. Therefore, reading one article on a topic won’t do anything to help you, you have to read multiple

There are even more people engrossed in Trump's campaign as his contentious rhetoric is spreading and becoming exponentially obscene. His words foreshadow what he'd do if he were president. My teachers have said that they "don't care" if Trump becomes president because "he wouldn't have any power, thanks to Congress." Obviously, that's false, and as we all have seen, his divisive words have been significantly detrimental to unification in this country - and he's not even in charge. I can imagine how he'd undermine the liberties granted by this country from the start. As he gains more advocates for becoming President of the U.S.A, I'm sure everyone else will be even more surprised by what he has to say because he'll have more leeway for his

This shows that the author uses fact based points. However, they also used lots of connotative words and clearly despised Trump, the article is also pathos, or appeal to emotions. For example, the author said “Trump’s words are alarming in their resemblance to the rhetoric from the early 1940s” (Trump pa. 6). The author tries to persuade the reader into believing that Trump was inadequate to be president because of his proposition to ban all Muslims. The author also wants the reader to believe that FDR was a bad president for putting the Japanese people in internment

I think people have just become cleverer with their techniques. Some times when an article is giving information in a respectable manner, it can also mean that they are not telling the whole story. What I have learned is that journalists will pick and choose what they want to put in their article, rather than feeding us all of the

Conservative dignitaries, friends and Distinguished speakers of this year’s Conservative political action conference… I want to first say thank you for inviting me to speak… It is not only an honor but will be the highlight of my life to not only address some of our party’s rank and file but, to also place emphasis on our core principles and just what it is that makes us conservatives.

In our democratic society, mass media is the driving force of public opinion. Media sources such as Internet, newspaper, news-broadcasts, etc, play significant roles in shaping a person’s understanding and perception about the events occurred in our daily lives. As long as the newspapers, internet, network television, etc, continued to be easily accessible to the public, the media will continue to have an influence in shaping its opinions. Factors such as agenda-setting, framing and priming help shape the public opinions. Agenda-setting is when the media focuses their attention on selected issues on which the public will form opinion on, whereas framing allows the media to select certain aspects about the problem and then

The way the media frame issues has a subtle yet significant effect on the general public. Studies have shown that frames can help determine which procedures we find medically necessary (Edwards, Elwyn, Covey, Matthews, & Pill, 2001), can influence our ability to recall critical details of a news story (Valkenburg, 2000), and can even subtly influence elections (Shah, Domke, & Wackman, 1996). Given the impact frames can have on the general public, it is important to have a clear way to conceptualize and measure their effects.

Another way media frames political issues is inserting media’s own position on the issue. The media’s position tends to be more liberal and promotes more democratic policies and issues. This bias coverage stems from a long growing relationship between the media and liberal forces (Ginsberg, Lowi & Weir, 1999). However, any bias can distort new coverage and influence audiences in that direction.