Vulgar Attack By Jeff Watson

The impression the news article creates is that the union members took aggressive action with armed force or violent measures, as well as the use of offensive reference to sex or bodily functions. The article also gives off the impression that the uniform members are sexist as said in the article, “the flat out mistreatment of volunteers who are woman was completely dehumanizing” which Watson uses to label NDP followers. Since the article similarly implies that Watson believes the NDP leader, Tracey, should be held responsible for the unions’ behaviour.

The impression of violence is shown through the language used in the headline by the phrase “vulgar attack “. The word attack implies a high degree of violence and vulgar is commonly used

However, the article relies heavily on Jeff Watson being the major source with his volunteers making the article very unbalanced. Jeff Watson, being a politician, has a key interest in how the story is presented as he uses the protest to accuse Tracey Ramsey, a fellow competitor, of being involved with the rude behaviour. As presented in the indirect quote of Watson saying that Tracey needed to denounce the behaviour because her party receives plenty of support from unions like Unifor. Other than the response from NDP representative Tracey Ramsey, no sources were from the unions’ point of view, making the article very unbalanced. Jeff Watson is also not a credible source even though many people believe his word to be true since he is high on the political hierarchy and is a man of power. Mr. Watson is not a credible source since he did not experience the name calling first hand. As said in the article, he wasn’t informed of how the volunteers were treated until after the event, even though he was as the protest at 7:30pm. As a reader, this raises questions as to why the volunteer, if name-called, didn’t tell anyone right away if they felt threatened. If Mr. Watson was there why did he not see the “vulgar attacks” himself and address the issue to the union representative Chris Taylor or remove his volunteers? Also, the credibility of the volunteer is non- existent with no

The direct quote in the article from Watson has him saying, “There’s a lot of room for dialogue and disagreement on matters of policy, but the flat out mistreatment of volunteers who are women was completely dehumanizing,” and that, “Tracey Ramsey should denounce this type of behaviour”. He then goes on to say “even if the event wasn’t endorsed by the NDP,” which he’s implying they could have not that they didn’t. This acts as an innuendo for Watson since the aspersions are casted on the character or reputation of another person, as said in the text in this case opponent NDP candidate Tracey