Today in class we discussed the importance of news and how it affects many people watching it. In class we also watched a full news broadcast on NBC. We looked at the importance of each story and how the order changed its affect. The story that really struck me was on heroin usage. The story talked about how today heroin is such a huge problem ruining the lives of millions. One specific statistic that really caught my attention was heroin overdose has doubled since 2008. I think the heroin usage story had a greater affect on the view because right before it they had a segment on Phillip Seymour Hoffman dying from heroin overdose. He was a great actor, very well known and loved so views felt personally connected to his death. The news station used pathos to help the view feel sorrow and sadness for his family then immediately afterwards they used logos by sharing many statistics about the increase in heroin usage. By combining both pathos and logos the viewer was very emotionally involved in the segments. I think the heroin usage story was the most significant because it affects our future the most. If usage continues to increase at the same rate which it has been there will barely be any American's still alive. I thought it was really interesting and important how one politician used his entire state of union speech to express the need for heroin clean up off the streets. The most interesting segment to me was the one about the young fire fighter who gave a dying patient a bone marrow transplant which saved his life. I thought it was very inspirational and uplifting to learn about those two mens journey. Often times news can be very negative and hard to watch but that story made me want to watch it more. I love learning about situations that have a happy ending. I liked how the news station put that segment last because it ended the show positively. Either the information is sad or happy, it is very important to watch the news and know what is happening in our world today.
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February 2014
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