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Kim Jong-Un Endorses Donald Trump

I was scrolling through Facebook one afternoon and saw a video that talked about Donald Trump being endorsed by North Korea’s Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-Un. I thought this was strange, so i found a news article about this topic. In this news article, it starts saying that Kim Jong-Un closely watched the GOP and Democratic debates. After watching these debates he concluded that Donald Trump would be a good leader of The United States. Later in this article it goes on saying that Kim admires Trump’s concept of building a wall between the United States and Mexico. Towards the end of the article, the writer of this article writes about how they do not know what it will do for Trump’s stands in the polls, but time will tell.

In this article it does not specify much about the source of their information. How are we supposed to trust this article if we do not know where this information is coming from? When the information of where the source does not come from, it is a major fallacy in the rhetoric world, Ethos. This article has even committed a bigger inconsistency by not citing the author of this article and it commits Ethos on a bigger account. This is one of the inconsistencies in this article so this article should not be trusted.
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  1. UnknownOctober 5, 2016 at 5:05 PM

    Ethos is definitely lacking, good point.

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  2. AnonymousOctober 6, 2016 at 12:07 PM

    I agree ^^^ The argument would be stronger if it was from a reliable source.

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  3. AnonymousOctober 6, 2016 at 5:21 PM

    An interesting post. Title was intriguing. Post well written, specifically relating to the notice of the article lacking ethos making it hard to be trustworthy. Well-written.

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  4. Jason R.October 7, 2016 at 5:27 AM

    That is a good point that ethos is a major thing in news. So it was a very good idea to point that out in the blog post.

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  5. Abigail OverbeyOctober 18, 2016 at 11:51 AM

    This is definitely very interesting to read about. And like mentioned it is very hard to know what to believe since the ethos is absent in this article.

    Caleb

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  6. claireOctober 20, 2016 at 5:00 PM

    That article was definitely missing ethos, but at the same time I was intrigued as to reading about what he had to say. I think it is very eye opening to make such a comparison between these two controversial politicians.

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  7. UnknownNovember 4, 2016 at 4:08 AM

    I agree that ethos was really needed in this. It makes it hard to believe what they say is true without it. But overall this was a good article.

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