Lockout Persuasive Speech

Hello Grade 10s,
I’m sure you all have heard about Sydney’s lockout laws in the news recently. Although right now it doesn’t affect us, this issue is literally EVERYWHERE I look. All I can see is different news outlets picking sides and criticising these laws. As media consumers, we expect the media to give us a fair representation of the issue reported. While most news reports are quite fair, balanced and accurate, sometimes a little devil appears on the journalist’s shoulder and whispers “write a biased article”. For those who don’t know, a biased article is an article that does not represent individuals, groups or issues fairly. Don’t get what I’m saying? Give me five minutes to prove how biased news can be. Prepare to be mindblown on the
This article was published on February 12th on abc.net.au and talks about the issue from Mike Baird’s point of view. It features a related story section, which contains articles that support to the viewpoint of the article. The placement of the section on the first half of the article, to the right of the backstory, creates a visual pathway. This pathway is created to distract us from the negative nature of the backstory and allows us to really focus on the section of the article where they quote Baird’s praises of the law. We can see that this is quite similar to how the article from before uses photographs to create a break and engage the
The use of positive verbs such as ‘eliminate’ and the use of negative nouns such as ‘drinking ghetto’ makes us view that the government is DJ Khaled, with the keys to success. We can also see that this is similar to the way the former article use word choices to affect the meaning of what they’re trying to say. These choices manipulate our opinions of the issue and makes us think that only this viewpoint is right. Do you guys see what I’m getting at