Reading Journal 4

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/beto-orourke-says-doesnt-regret-confronting-abbott-other-texas-officials-uvalde-school-shooting

The headline I will be summarizing and analyzing is a Fox News article  titled: “Beto O’Rourke says he doesn’t regret confronting Abbott, other Texas officials in Uvalde after school shooting.” 

As the headline is already very informative as to what the article is going to be, there are some interesting words in the headline that create controversy. As we all know, Fox news is a very conservative news channel that usually comments and opposes the ideas and actions of liberals and democrats. Without being too political, the headline includes words that do not shine a bright light towards democrat Beto O’rourke. For example, the words “doesn’t regret” are the words that highlight the whole headline and the article itself. These words create this sense that what Beto O’rourke did was such a horrible and wrongful act. While O’rourkke was just being confrontational about the Uvalde shooting towards Gov. Abbott, the headline’s language demonstrates that their mostly conservtive audience will be convinced that Beto O’rourke’s actions were wrong and unacceptable. While this headline is very aggressive towards O’rourke, it is not clickbait and the article actually includes other language that makes O’rourke look bad.

The author, Paul Best, intends to somewhat convince his audience that what O’rourke did was wrong. Some interesting words Best uses are “interrupted” to say what O’roruke did at a press conference. Interruption usually has a negative connotation to it, hence, interrupting someone is always seen as disrespectful. This type of words leads to the kind of writing that mostly fits – ethos. This is most likely ethos because the author is trying to convince his audience by using words that negatively affect Beto O’rourke. Another example is by a word he uses later, “exploded.” Uses it to say that O’rourke “exploded” at a heckler about a comment the heckler made, however, in this video, O’rourke is more confrontational than explosive. The word “exploded” also adds the same effect as “interrupted” which are both ways the author goes about to write this article about this event. 

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