This week I will be rhetorically analyzing two different blogs, seeing what the similarities and differences are. Both of the blogs i will discuss are speaking about Piracy, but they go about their discussion in different ways.
The first blog I will discuss is by Rohit Bhat and titled Reliance Entertainment Takes A Drastic Step To Prevent Piracy. This blog is discussing a story that happened recently, of Reliance Energy using its court rights to sue some top file sharing companies. The author is mainly using the technique of logos, by spitting out specific facts about a variety of file sharing companies and about Reliance Entertainment. The author uses numbers and specific quotes to prove the solid facts of the story. He is obviously very against piracy, but disagrees with the way Reliance Energy went about it. He is most likely targeting fellow "piracy-haters" and challenging people to brainstrom new ideas to stop piracy.
Joseph Campbell discusses his views of piracy in his blogpost Let's See Virgins, Gangs and a Lawyer in Virginia.... This blog is his account of examples of companies suing other companies for copyright infringement. However, he talks about a completely different aspect of piracy. He discusses companies suing just to earn some money, but not actually caring about the stopping of piracy. This artist uses a combination of ethos and pathos in this blog, and having a large bias towards these companies. Ethos is used by describing the various examples and experiences he has been through, establishing a better perspective for others that have not been through similar situations. He appeals to pathos by using biting vocabulary such as "using some of that new fangled geolocation technology" and "nothing more than faking a fall in the local market."
In comparing the two, I believe the first blog does a better job at promoting no piracy. The second blog rants on and on about various stories, but the first blog gives the cold hard facts. The second author does use ethos, but it doesn't seem be as good of a tool as the use of logos in the first article.
I like the examples you used to depict each author's writing style. I agree with you I feel like using logos in an argument about piracy is a more effective tool to get your point across and to plant bias in the audience's head. after all, you can't deny the cold hard facts.
ReplyDeleteBoth of these blog entries sound really interesting. I think it is interesting to see how different writers try to get their points across. I always feel more persuaded by facts than a rant.
ReplyDeleteThe second blog you talked about brought up an interesting point that i wouldn't have thought about, suing without the intent of stopping piracy but to earn back money. I think this is actually more intimidating because if I know a company is suing to make a statement i know they really are just trying to make a spectacle of it but if they are suing to try and earn back the money they have lost through piracy then they are going for blood. I haven't read anything else about this in the blogs I looked through.
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