In looking for an article to analyze for rhetoric, I came across an article from a news source that hardly ever engages in rhetoric, Fox News. (If that last statement seems to be strange, please refer to last week’s lesson on tone and see facetious)
The article is about Mr. Obama’s address to a bipartisan group of congressional leaders last week about his proposed health care reform. The majority of the coverage that I had heard and read about the address had the consensus that Obama delivered a very scathing speech directed at members of the republican party who are unwilling to progress the presidents bill.
The Fox News report shockingly portrays a very different take on the event. The article uses logos through the omission of facts and quotes contrary to their own position to recreate the speech in a manor that would be more appealing to their readers.
The article makes no reference to the comments that Mr. Obama made directed towards members of the GOP that were unwilling to assist him in the passing of his legislation. The article instead features quotes from various members of the Republican party that were critical of the President’s agenda.
This article gives an example of not only simply using logic as a method of persuasion, but takes it one step further by carefully selecting the information to deliver while filtering that which is contrary to their own agenda.
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