Stooping to Conquer: Why Candidates Need to Make Fun of Themselves
What is the purpose of the argument? What does it hope to achieve?
This argument’s purpose is to tell why it is beneficial for a political officer to sometimes poke fun at themselves to relieve some of the pressure created everyday by the media. Some candidates do questionable things, and to help them deal with them and let the public see that are a normal, everyday person, they need to just laugh at what they did. In doing this, they are encouraging the public to laugh with them on this subject, not at them. This argument hopes to persuade the reader to believe it is beneficial for politicians to make jokes about themselves in the public media.
What shape does the argument take? How is the argument presented or arranged? What media does the argument use?
The argument takes the form of a few past occasions of political officials making fun of something that they did and how that later helped them recover popularity in the eyes of the public. Mainly, this argument is just a couple stories about candidates in the past that helped restore their names with comedy. Examples of what the candidates did was shown and explained how other individuals followed after them and restored their honor amongst society. The argument uses examples from television and newspapers.
Who is making the argument? What ethos does it create, and what values does it assume?
A writer from a newspaper wrote this article and formulated this argument. This creates a little bit of a question as far as the morals are concerned, because reporters most of the times are just looking for more people to read their material when they write it. The validity of the argument is somewhat questioned when the reader finds that it was written by a newspaper reporter.
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I think that you have a really good topic and have picked some good points to talk about. The first question you answered about the purpose of the argument will allow you to write a good amount. You could bring in examples from the past election and maybe talk about Sarah Palin and her SNL skit. For this paper I think you picked a good side to argue. I think you can expand on how past candidates restored their image. In your paper you should use a lot of examples to help with the argument. It also may be helpful, if possible to write about how the public reacted to the candidates making fun of themselves. That may help you support the argument.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like you didn't find this essay to be particularly effective, which is fine; so your essay might focus on why this is and what you think the writer could have done to make the piece better. Further develop your criticism of reporters and ethos. Since the writer uses lots of examples, you could focus on what the writer's trying to accomplish with these examples.
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