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Rhetorical Analysis Of The Los Angeles Times By David Wharton

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On January 2, 2023 the sports world was rattled. On the Monday night football game between the Bangles and Buffalos, player Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field and went into cardiac arrest. After receiving nine minutes of CPR, Hamlin was rushed to the hospital where he received further treatment and recovered. This terrifying moment that was captured on national television sparked the conversation once again as to if the NFL should change the game of football or if football is too dangerous of a sport. These questions led well known sports journalist for the Los Angeles Times, David Wharton, to write the article “Will Damar Hamlin’s injury change the NFL? Why a safer game could turn fans away” three days after Hamlin’s collapse. Wharton’s goal …show more content…

Giving these real world examples of worldwide popular sports helps boost Whatron’s credibility of his argument. Wharton uses a strong ethos appeal which contributes to the validity of his argument. To begin, David Wharton is a famous sports journalist for the Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles Times). Wharton received his degree in journalism and as years progressed he won best sports writing awards, won the award of “Best American Sports Writing”, and is the author of two sports related books (Los Angeles Times). Based on his extensive background in sports journalism, this adds to Wharton’s trustworthiness as he has been immersed in the sports world for so long that he knows how events such as Hamlin’s play out. Wharton also brings in numerous expert quotes to contribute to his argument. To support his point of humans being fascinated by violence in sport, Wharton uses this quote from George Orwell that states, “serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard for all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting” (Wharton). While some may argue the idea of what does Geroge

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