Emeril Lagasse
The first clip uses glitteringing generalities. For example, he repeatedly says,"We're doing a good job." and uses other glad words. He uses ad populum wheb he metions that he does not know the facts or statistics, but he does know how much the oil spill is affecting the people.
Olympic Athletes
These advertisements use the technique of transfer in order to transfer the positive, patriotic feelings towards the olympic athletes to the company of BP. It also uses red herring to divert the attention away from the issue of the oil spill.
Committment to America
This clip uses plain folks when it shows ordinary looking people enjoying their time on the beaches on the Gulf. It also uses observational selection because it doesn't show any of the negative effects of the oil spill.
Promoting Tourism
This advertisment uses bandwagon to suggest that everyone travels to the Gulf to have fun. It also uses glittering generalities to convince people to visit the Gulf.
Cassie,
ReplyDeleteNice job identifying the propaganda techniques and logical fallacies for the most part. Couple issues to consider: (1) Ad populum: fallacious argument that concludes a proposition to be true because many or most people believe it. (2) The promoting tourism analysis requires work. Glittering generalities is not a logical fallacy. Also, your analysis of bandwagon lacks detail/specificity. Consider revising before 04/12/2013.