Article 1
In the informative piece ‘Failures led to Williams murder’ that appeared in the, The Australian on the 19 April 2012 written by John Ferguson. The Ferguson contended that the misjudgment and failures that contributed to the murder of Carl Williams, which calls into question the liability of the Barwon Prison. In reference to safety to the members in the prison. This is demonstrated by the condemning and informative tone by Ferguson.
Ferguson uses attacks by discrediting the opponents as unreliable and dishonest, to gain control over the opposition by using one or more of the means. ‘Monitoring systems were so poor that it took prison guards 27 minutes to find Williams body’. This shows the failures and deficiency of the Barwon prison security.
Emotive language is also used by Ferguson by ‘he is serving a minimum 32 year term for the bashing of Williams to death with the metal bar from an exercise bike two years ago. This is used to create powerful images in the readers mind so that something appears more threatening, menacing or peaceful.
Ferguson used these techniques such as emotive language, attacks and statistics to gain attention of the readers mind. To show them that the Barwon prison is downfall a failure to the eyes of the readers.
Article 2
In the editorial by the editor ‘Failure of care, failure of state’ that appeared in the, The age on the 19 of April 2012 written by the editor. He contends that how is it possible that a high profile prisoner in Victoria’s highest security prison unit could be killed by an unsecured metal pipe from an exercise bike. This is shown by the strong and negative tone demonstrated by the editor.
The editor uses Anecdotes ‘Commissioner of corrections stated that there is a little doubt that Johnson is capable of causing Williams harm if he were to find out the true nature of Williams’. This particular technique