The newspaper article published on October 5th, 1957 was intended for US citizens. The article was clearly written in the US, and it was during the cold war era, however this did not seem to influence how the author chose to write about the successful launch of Sputnik by Russia. This is interesting because you'd expect that almost every american newspaper during this time period would portray Russia as being morally wrong due to its Communist government but this author stuck to the facts of what happened and even seemed excited by Russia's success. That being said, I do think this was an exciting event for people all over the world because, as the article puts it, "man had crossed the threshold into the age of travel through space." This statement proved to be high hopes as we've seen since the farthest man has gone so far was to the moon but if you were alive during the 50's and 60's you might have believed that space travel would have continued to advance through present day. One of the smaller columns of the newspaper gives tips on how to see Sputnik which further illustrates the idea that people from all over the world were excited by this scientific breakthrough even though it was a Russian satellite. The column on the right side of the newspaper depicts a slightly different story though. It depicts the governments reaction to this event as being negative due to the fact that if the soviets could launch a satellite into space, they could potentially fire intercontinental missiles at the US, this is what really started the space race.
- Conor Cochran
I think a valuable term to bring up here would be intrinsic ethos. The author of the article does not let extrinsic factors affect his view of the argument. Although his audience is still the American people, due to his just view upon the subject his audience could be expanded even further
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