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Rhetorical Analysis Of Foreign News In A Crisis By Fred S. Goodman

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In the article, Foreign News in a Crisis, Fred S. Goodman claims that more contract writers should supply the U.S. with foreign news. Fred S. Goodman has done an incredible job at persuading the audience with his concern for the lack of international information in the United States. Therefore, he utilizes statistical evidence from a credible source, rhetorical devices, and appeals to the reader’s emotions with trustworthy information to support his claim. Goodman focuses the reader’s attention on statistical evidence and facts that the American Journalism Review (AJR) presented in the first three paragraphs. Goodman uses the line, “found 307 full-time people. dropped to 234.” to illustrate the declining number of foreign contract writers across the world. Therefore, the readers fully rely on Goodman’s research of logical numbers from a credible source. However, statistical evidence is not the only way Goodman demonstrates his claim. …show more content…

For example, Goodman uses the word “we” to specify that he is also involved in the media presentation community, allowing him to seem like an expert in the field. Through his word choice, Goodman utilizes other literary elements as well. In particular, paragraph nine, Goodman compares reporters on social media and professional contract writers with unbiased matters. Goodman continues to explain that “the people paid to use their expertise while serving as informational filters, are being replaced by citizen journalists who function largely as funnels, pouring insight along with speculation, propaganda and other white noise into the mix.” Therefore the readers are informed that journalists on social media often use unfiltered marginal patronizing in their writing, unlike professional contract

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