There was an online opinion piece called "Why Are We Still Whitewashing?", and it covers the basis with racial and gender diversity. I think that it covers most of ethos and logos, but not enough pathos- for one, it explained how African-American models on those beauty magazines, through the photoshop phase, they would make the African-American models-- "whiter". Some of the accusations or some producers would say, reasons, of this is that it would appeal to wider audiences. When you think of it, it sounds ridiculous- but it does happen. It even explains it in the movie industry- that white actors would portray diverse characters because Hollywood studio executives think that white actors sell more tickets and bring in more money and audiences. Once again it uses ethos and logos very well as it cites sources from other works and from producers, etc, but again- no use of pathos. No emotion going in the opinion piece at all. How I would've done with the piece's pathos, is brought up Halle Berry's Oscar acceptance speech where she stated that it's difficult for African-American actors in the industry to get noticed in the Oscars, considering that she was the ONLY African-American actress to have won the Best Actress award. Also, throughout the piece, it doesn't have any advocacy on what to do about it- what I think could be done, is that more recently, since we live in the Age of the Internet, is that when people find out about whitewashed roles, they would sign petitions against the film or the studio so that they would understand what exactly they are doing. So far, studio executives have taken this into account and added diversity into some films. More and more films are doing as such. So, overall, this opinion piece is mediocre, I mean- it just needed work on it's pathos (a lot of work) and it needed advocacy.
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December 2015
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