Peter S. Goodman Analysis

In today's day-in-age, technology is always advancing. Information gets spread across the world within seconds. The internet and social media has helped make communication faster than ever. However, Peter S. Goodman is more of an old-school guy and likes reporting and is not in favor of social media. In this passage, Goodman informs readers on facts about journalism and what has been done, as well as his views on journalism, and he uses logos, problem and solution, and comparison to do this. Appeal to logos, which is the appeal to logic or facts, is used by Goodman in the passage. He uses it to show the decrease in the amount of foreign reporting in recent years. For example, he remarks "Back in 2003, American Journalism Review produced a census of foreign correspondents then employed by newspapers based in the United States, and found 307 full time people. When AJR repeated the exercise in 2011, the count had dropped to 234." Here it shows how significantly the # of

He states the problem first, as he remarks "In short, news of the world is becoming palpably more relevant to the day-to day experiences of American readers, and it is rapidly disappearing." In other words, world news is becoming more relevant and seen to Americans not through reporting but through social media and other types of technological communications, so it disappears quicker. He then states a solution that can help foreign reporting, as he mentions "Several nonprofit outlets have popped up to finance foreign reporting, and a for profit outfit, Global Post, has dispatched a team of 18 senior correspondents into the field, supplemented by dozens of stringers and freelancers..." Here he tells us what has been put in place to help make foreign journalism prominent again. In conclusion, Goodman explains the problem thoroughly and provides a solution that can actually make a positive