Rhetorical Analysis Of Luce's Speech 'Socrates'

In Luce’s speech, she uses ethos in order to demonstrate to her audience that the public view on journalism forces journalists to give up their honor in order to publish some exaggerated stories. Her audience is a group of journalists at the Women’s National Press Club in the 1960’s. Journalists around this time may believe that sacrificing their rectitude was morally acceptable due to the fact that this is what the public demanded from the American Press. However, Luce argues that the journalists should publish what they desire to considering that “no audience knows better than an audience of journalists that the pursuit of the truth, and the articulation of it, is the most delicate, hazardous, exacting, and inexact of tasks” (Luce). This