Lesson 5: Media Messages and War of the Worlds
Objectives
When you’ve successfully completed this lesson, you will be able to
- identify logical, ethical, and emotional appeals.
- identify rhetorical and logical fallacies.
- analyze strategies used by media to inform, persuade, entertain, and transmit culture.
- critique a speaker’s use of words and language in advertising and the impact the words may have on the intended audience.
- analyze the techniques used in media messages for a particular audience and evaluate their effectiveness in Orson Welles’s radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds.
- create a commercial for a new product.
