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Teen Saves Drowning Toddler


News broadcasts use rhetoric by grabbing the attention of the viewers by making the news clips short. Also they get your attention with the heading, they put very little information to make you want to read the story or watch the video.

In the video of the teen who rescues the drowning toddler they keep the words going across the bottom of the video to show other news. During this short video of one minute and twenty seconds, they quickly show the girl going into the pool. The reporter makes you feel bad for the child, when she says that the child has been underwater for over two minutes. This is a serious problem, and should not happen again. Although the reporter stresses the fact that this child almost died. This is a good thing, since child should not swimming without adults watching them. This child almost died, because of the lack of care of someone to watch them.

Towards the end of the video they show one of the teens who helped save her life, this makes it seem more real. By hearing the story from one who was involved, makes you feel even worse for the girl. When the worker for the news company tells the story, you feel bad, but it does not seem as real, as when the story is told from the inside. Since the video is so short they have to say as much  as possible and yet it seems like they don’t say much at all. Newscasts do this to keep you watching the news, if they did not grab your attention with every clip no one would watch the news.
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  1. UnknownOctober 6, 2016 at 8:11 PM

    This was really interesting to read about. I feel so badly for the poor girl that was drowning. Just the fact that she was alone long enough to get in the pool and be drowning for 2 minutes before anyone even noticed is so disappointing. I'm just glad the teen noticed her and helped.

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