Blog Post 2: "Paul Manafort Tried to Help Russian Oligarch Suspected of Mob Ties Get a US Visa"3/22/2017 This article, written by David Corn, is about Paul Manafort's involvement with Russian organized crime before his transition to running and managing Donald Trump's presidential campaign. Corn has a very censorious and critical diction throughout the article. For example, he uses words like "notorious", "crony" and "secretly" to describe the people involved in the news story. These words show that Corn feels that Manafort kept his past very quiet so that he wouldn't have the media criticizing and questioning him. This also shows how Corn appeals to ethos throughout the article. David Corn disputes Paul Manafort's credibility by connecting him to "Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, a close Putin ally". It is no secret that the people of the United States feel that Russia had rigged the 2016 elections in Trump's favor, and this seems to support that thought. Corn displays an informative and relatively unbiased tone in his news story. "Manafort "proposed in a confidential strategy plan...that he would influence politics, business dealings and news coverage inside the United States, Europe and the former Soviet republics to benefit the Putin government." ". This is just one of other examples of his appeal to logos through stating facts and informative tone through referencing other credible sources. The purpose of this article was to uncover Trump's advisers and other partners. There are many ties with Russian officials and elites and Donald Trump himself, and this story's goal was to expose another connection between the two.
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