Answer & Explanation:Remember when you did this homework for me?(its in the document)I need to have SoapstoneWho is the Speaker?The voice that tells the story
What is the Occasion?The time and the place of the piece; the context that prompted the writing.Who is the Audience? The group of readers to whom this piece is directed.What is the Purpose?The reason behind the text. What is the Subject? Students should be able to state the subject in a few words or phrases. What is the Tone?The attitude of the author.that is SOAPSTONE.I need that from the homework you did before. Also a brief summary of what the article is about and is it possible if you annotate the article. For example, if there is ethos or pathos. Overall, things that will be needed to analyze.I would say copy and paste the article in a word document and annotate it. by high lighting it red and writing over it.you wrote the annotations but the teacher wants to see it in the text itself
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Lukas Rehberger
Ms. Porterfield
IB English
6/9/2016
Annotation
Feldman and Began reported a survey they conducted on social media that concerns
the levels to which the public trusts the media. The result was that only 6% of people trust the
media. The survey was conducted on Facebook and twitter. Facebook showed that 92% of the
users did not trust the mass media. 2000 adults were considered, with 6% admitting total
trust, 52% indicating minimal trust and 41% declaring no trust. The reasons for the distrust
was not focused on, but some few individuals pointed out on the first ruling of the supreme
court on Obamacare was totally inaccurate, and a spiral cases of campus rapes that was found
to be untrue. They go ahead to describe that such distrust is due to few practices that had been
conducted by reckless individuals in the journalism industry (Swanson & Feldman, 6th June,
2016).
Discern
It is notable that the article has taken very touching topic. I noted the shallowness of
the topic. It is constricted to the question of trust. It also fails to hold the reasons accountable
for the mass distrust. On the other hand, I note that the topic has some level of
discontinuation. It is not a ‘true’ or ‘false’, or rather, discrete topic. It has very many levels.
Some members of the community trust totally, others trust decimally, other trust moderately,
others trust just beyond moderate. Others don’t trust at all. There is a scale, which was not
considered. Instead, only three levels of trust were considered (total trust, slight trust and no
trust at all).
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Bias in the article
The type of bias in this population is mainly bias by section of source. The
information was obtained from Facebook and twitter. This two platforms cannot justify any
information, since they are similar, and serve a similar type of population; the digital
population. The population that is out of this kind of online excitement is more interested in
media news. They have a better chance to watch news on TV, listen to radios, and read print
press news. For this case, the media interact more with the population that was left out during
the Feldman’s survey. There is also bias by spin. The reporters have interpreted one side of
the topic of concern; ‘who trusts the media?’ They could have given the other side a try to
give the report a benefit of doubt. A valuation of ‘who doesn’t trust the media? Was also an
essence, if they were to eliminate the bias. Bias through spin is also known as bias through
sources.
The article embraces allusion as a style to relay message. The names of violators who
have caused the disgrace of distrust of journalists by the public are left out. It is clear that the
people are known by name, but are left very anonymous. Also, all surveys conducted in
today’s world are supposed to keep the respondents anonymous. Another style is hyperbole.
The reporters make the situation look so bad, that only 6% trust the media on the heading, yet
through deeper reading, it is found that there is a 52% that also trust the media, but sparingly.
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Reference
Swanson, E., & Feldman, C. (6th June, 2016). AP: Survey Says Just Six Percent Put Their
Trust in the Media. MRC News Busters.
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