Jeffrey Goldberg And Susan Dominus

Jeffrey Goldberg and Susan Dominus are both newspaper writers for well-known magazine articles. With the large audience that reads their newspapers every day, it is important for each writer to use rhetoric to engage the audience to keep reading their work to make them more successful. With each writer’s use of ethos, pathos and logos, they target different audience groups to inform them of important global subject matter such as the rising anti-Semitism in Europe or the gaining power of the French National Front. Jeffrey Goldberg’s ethos is very strong, as he is editor in chief of The Atlantic magazine, a well-known periodical. Goldberg’s credibility is also validated as he was the recipient of the National Magazine Award for Reporting.

Dominus excels at interviewing her subjects in a more intimate setting than Goldberg, which adds credibility to her argument because she has high-access privilege to get a first-hand look into the politicians’ lives. For example, Dominus shows the intensity inside of the room with Marine Le Pen just moments before Le Pen’s speech. By being allowed to attend the conference, it adds a lot of ethos to Dominus as a writer as well a to her

It was most impactful to his audience to include his interview with Yaacov Monsonego, a principle of a Jewish day school who saw his young daughter murdered at a school shooting before his eyes. He “speaks privately for a couple of minutes,” showing the intimacy and the respect that Goldberg has for his respondent. The word “privately” signifies that Goldberg has the validity in the interviewing field, as he is having this one-on-one conversation with an influential leader in the Jewish community. It not only adds to his ethos because he has the access to communicating with Monsonego, but it adds to his pathos as well because he can truly express how Monsonego felt following the school shooting. The reader is able to sympathize with the father, and be emotionally drawn to the text and encouraged to keep reading. This same kind of technique of using pathos to illustrate Jewish victimization is repeated in the later part of the article when the school children are harassed by anti-Semitist gangs on their way to school. Goldberg summarizes their experience by using the word “brutal,” as they are abused, raped, and taunted daily. The reader is expected to feel apologetic to the Jews, a strategy that makes Goldberg so