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Wednesday, February 20, 2013

BP Propaganda

Video 1
Techniques-
     Testimonial: Emeril
Fallacies-
     agrgumentum ad ignorantiam: People don't know what's actually going on
     observational selection: Pointed out all the "good" things going on but not the actual bad things.

Videos 2 and 3
Techniques-
     Transfer: Associates BP with the positive image of the Olympics
Fallacies-
     non sequitor: The association of the two don't follow or make sense
     red herring: They try to divert the attention of the spill over to the Olympians

Video 4
Techniques-
     Plain Folks: People just like us
Fallacies-
     half truths: They support many jobs but ignore the fact of the bad oil spill



1 comment:

  1. Maranda,
    Magnificent job with LFs, especially argumentum ad ignorantiam. I appreciate you going above and beyond determining multiple LFs, but where is your analysis of Testimonial/Plain Folks?
    You are also missing one video clip.

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