Ethos on UC Berkeley

The ethos in UC Berkeley is difficult to recognize due to the overall goal of a news article is to release as little bias as possible and reflect all of the main events through evidence. A piece of intrinsic ethos was shown when Phil Helsel released information of Yiannopoulos’ critics sharing he has a “history” of making “offensive comments related to race and religion”. Phil Helsel is a reporter and editor for NBC News, where a majority of the audience is leaning left. According to Linkedin, Helsel is in the “greater Los Angeles area”, a well populated area full of liberals. He has also reported from the Wall Street Journal, New York Post, and Staten Island Advance, where he covered breaking news for criminal justice, environmental issues and education. Due to him being involved in numerous New York news agencies before NBC, one can predict that Helsel is from New York, another state populated with those leaning left. According to MSNBC, he has done numerous articles in relations to equality, race, society, civil liberties, protesting, Black Lives Matter Movement, the recent election, international politics, police brutality, and violence. Helsel noted that President Trump “threatened” to take away funding from UC Berkeley. A wide portion of the article was explaining the viewpoint of the protestors, the viewpoint of the Berkeley College Republicans and Milos Yiannopoulos, and the viewpoint of UC Berkeley. Most was pertaining to the “violence” of the protestors, and the inability to reference the difference between our first amendment and unlawful actions.

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  1. UnknownOctober 8, 2017 at 3:32 PM

    I thought your did a great job in exploring Phil Helsel's extrinsic ethos. It is really helpful to have the author's background in mind when judging the credibility of article. However the intrinsic ethos could have expanded and centralized, because it is equally important to the credibility and efficacy of the article.

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  2. UnknownOctober 8, 2017 at 4:02 PM

    I completely agree with your analysis of the author's ethos. However, I believe that the news network he is currently employed at also has a major appeal to ethos. As mentioned, NBC's audience tends to be more aligned to liberal views, and it might be interesting to see how their track record on reporting on similar issues effects how well this piece was received.

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  3. UnknownOctober 8, 2017 at 8:22 PM

    This is a great example of how ethos is presented in arguments today. At this point in our society, there are two broad and defined sides on political views, and Helsel uses his liberal views to gain support from the same side. Combined with his popularity due to his employment with NBC and other major news companies, he gains a lot of support because he is establishing credibility by denouncing "offensive comments".

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