Summary Of Cheating By Ted Rall

In this article, Ted Rall addresses an issue that is currently widely controversial. The FBI and Apple controversy circulates around the issue on whether or not Apple should be forced to provide a specific ¨code¨ that will enable the FBI to go through Syed Farook’s (a gunman in the San Bernardino shooting) iPhone. Though perceived as an agreeable decision, Apple claims that if the code were to be given, it is highly possible that all Apple product users’ devices can be invaded. However, according to Rall, this whole issue is associated solely on a former CIA employee named Edward Snowden. Rall reveals that Snowden exposed the ¨illegal¨ activities of the NSA (National Security Agency), an organization that has access to the contents of many cell phone devices.
He presents a collection of factual evidence to emphasize the Apple issue with the FBI. By doing so, he prompts the reader to gain knowledge on the issue, persuading them that Snowden’s claim about the NSA is in fact true. The pathetic appeal present in the article causes the reader to consider the claims suggested by Ted Rall. He states, ¨When you stop and think about this, it’s insane.¨ He uses the word ¨insane¨ to stress the idea that the plan of only having one director for sixteen intelligence agencies, and this enables the reader to conclude the disadvantage of this plan. It is evident that Rall has a raised diction and his article is mostly directed to a knowledgeable audience who have higher vocabulary. It appears that when he displays the information about issues (politics, the NSA, Bush-era bureaucratics, etc.), he suspects that the reader would already be well-informed about these topics. An individual who isn’t on the look-out for the daily news, would likely not understand a word that Rall is talking about. Other columnists, conservatives, liberals, politicians, and such may be his targeted