Hey Guys, Welcome back to my blog or if this is your first time reading any of my blog posts Welcome to my blog. We all can admit that there has been at east once in out lifetime where you've been watching TV with someone and the dreaded commercial. Yes I'm pretty sure you know exactly which commercial I am talking about. If you don't just take a few minutes to watch the commercial, don't worry I've linked it below for you.
Now that you've seen the commercial or have had sad flashbacks you understand exactly what I'm talking about. The sad dog commercial, that just shows all these dogs that need help and homes. This taps into the readers or watchers pathos state. Pathos is the appeal to emotion and triggering an emotional response. This is a form of slanted reporting due to the fact that they don't show or hare numbers of dogs that it helps and the amount of dogs that are in safe homes. This advertisement is slanted due to the fact of lack of information and biases. It is also due to the fact that it doesn't use ethos and logos it relies purely on pathos to persuade its watchers to pay money to this cause. This video targets those compassionate sympathetic people that just want to care for everyone.
No comments:
Post a Comment