Thursday, September 18, 2008
Ethos and Pathos
when setting up an argument you have to have both emotions and ethics working together in oder to best appeal to your audience. It is not only important to connect to your audience, but to have the audiences trust as well. To gain this trust, one must create a strong knowledgeable tone by supporting your point with substantial evidence that proves your credibility. Once the audience believes that you know what you are talking about then they can start to listen to you argument. As a writer setting up an argument, if you wish to have the support of readers you are responsible for providing your readers with true substantial evidence. When it comes to the media, there is always something they are debating. But, they usually never use ethics in their reasoning. To appeal to their audience they make up what ever they can credible or not. They set up their arguments based on what they think people want to hear, not what the truth is. Because of this, the media has lost their credibility due to the fact that most of what you hear from them is not true. But as a respectable author, if you wish to have respect and gain peoples trust you must use ethos and pathos in a respectable manner.
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I agree with you when you say that it is important to not only have the audience connect with you but that it is important for the audience to trust you as well. I think that it is important that an audience trusts a writer because it allows the audience to believe what you are saying and the evidence that you are using to prove your point. I also agree with what you say about the media. I think that the media feeds into what the people want to hear. The media does not think about ethics when it comes to reporting a story.
Your statement about how media has become only a source that reflects what the audience wants, is correct. I agree that media places biases on every event reported. They leave out ethics and personal morals to promote the ratings. But, I disagree when you say that the audience has become aware that media isn't truthful. People wouldn't watch the news if they didn't believe it had credibility. Certain newscasts attract the specific people who DO ethically believe in what they are watching. Now what I believe and what someone else believes isn't going to to be the same, in parallel neither are the newscasts going to be alike.
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