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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ted-koppel-tells-sean-hannity-he-is-bad-for-america/ The world that we live in today is extremely different of that one that was in place 20 years ago. Many aspects have changed in regards to communities, education, the workforce and even the President of the United States. While some people are starting to realize that these things are changing, they want to prevent this world from worsening however not everyone wants to be included in this plan. On March 26, 2017 David Morgan decided to write about the conflict between Ted Koppel(CBS Contributor) and Sean Hannity(Fox News Host) and their differences with america with one being between whether or not CBS News is a news show or a opinion show. Morgan uses denotation diction to compliment his straight forward tone. He demonstrates this by providing words such as, "antipathy" and "prevalent" throughout the article for the audience to easily understand and grasp a well educated and sophisticated tone. The level of the author's emotional attachment is neutral considering he did not make it boldly known on whether or not he took a side. Another rhetorical device that was displayed was Morgan's appeals to ethos. He later incorporated a section of an interview between Koppel and Hannity discussing their differences and Hannity mentioned that, "We have to give some credit to the American people that they’re somewhat intelligent and that they know the difference between an opinion show and a news show,”(Morgan 1). This is Hannity's way of exclaiming that CBS TV does a great job of providing opinions towards situations however fails to represent facts. The authors purpose is to address this situation so that others may witness what television networks are commenting on CBS Productions. To finish the article off Morgan states that, "In a series of tweets, Hannity later accused CBS of offering Fake Edited News." (Morgan 1). Hannity will stop at nothing to make sure people know that CBS is not a credible news channel and they should not trust it. AUthor, David Morgan achieved his claim by including strong diction, and educated tone and appeals to ethos which resulted in his claim being strong.
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http://archive.boston.com/ae/tv/articles/2011/07/08/cbs_broadcasts_altered_views_of_bostons_fourth_of_july_fireworks/ James H. Burnett III made it a point on July 8, 2011 to mention how amazing it was to view the Boston’s revered Fourth of July celebration behind the State House, Quincy Market, to only realize how physically impossible it was to see from where CBS supposedly live streamed it from. False advertisement could only bring negativity into the picture so this resulted in a big break out from viewers. Burnett used concrete diction so the audience can easily understand his claims and to give an visual effect to the article. Throughout the article, he demonstrates this diction with words like, "...spectacular...launched...altered.."(Burnett 1). The level of emotional tone is demonstrated throughout the passage, considering people were upset about being showed amazing fireworks that were not truly taking place. Furthermore, the words used provided a contradicting yet embraceable tone. At the beginning of the passage Burnett provided bright words to describe the fireworks and then later showed peoples emotions towards CBS for their actions. The article appeals to ethos by being credible towards David Mugar, the Boston-area businessman and philanthropist who has executive produced the show for nine years. While arguing that the show was for entertainment and rules did not apply he mentioned, "“Among other places, we got video of the Old North Church...with the full cooperation of the Red Sox, who let us in and turned on certain lights for our shoot. And we did it all with the intention of superimposing the fireworks over the images.’’(Burnett 1). CBS had no intentions to offend anyone by doing this process however in their eyes, it was appealing to the eye and therefore would result in more viewers. On a celebration as big as Fourth of July, it is crucial to create the most realistic moments on television for those who could not leave their homes or get off of work early enough to go and see them in person. CBS News failed to deliver that goal and was called out for it, which is Burnett's purpose for the article. People want to be heard when they are not satisfied and in this situation CBS Productions was at fault for falsely broadcasting fireworks on live tv. They say it was for entertainment buy why? The people of Boston just wanted to see fireworks that were real, they could care less about the pictures below and James Burnett backed this claim up with a born and raised women of Boston who stated, "“I thought it looked fine... I just don’t like knowing it wasn’t real. I mean I know the fireworks were real, but I’m saying not real like they changed stuff. That’s not cool.’’(Burnett 1). It is almost child like behavior because if someone feels the need to literally photoshop fireworks, then how good is your channel really? The author had built up a strong argument by appealing to ethos, using concrete diction and a contradicting tone to back up his claim that CBS News should have not falsely broadcasted fireworks on the Fourth of July Celebration for people had complaints about it and just wanted to see what was really happening. |
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