RA: The Tribune Article

As a rhetorical analysis, I will review a previous Salt Lake Tribune source for my first research paper. It is interesting to note how easily it is to tell which side the article is debating. Surprisingly, it is arguing against my paper.
The first paragraph does let the reader hang in silence wondering where the article is going to go. It mentions that the school board is slowly “treading” on the problem of vending machines and that some have rallied to limit competitive foods. After a few comments from members of the Utah Board of Education, it gets down to the point.
After luring the audience this far, he pounces. He throws out some facts about Utah scoring an “F” on the national scale of overweight teen prevention—his source is my source which also stated that Utah has the lowest amount of obese teenagers in the country! Funny how he cleverly left that little bit of information out. Either way, he continues for the last paragraph, letting his audience know that Utah is doing nothing to solve the problem. He lists the various fields in which Utah has failed over the past years—such as providing healthy meals, proper health education, etc.
The information that he did use was all correct. He didn’t lie, but it just beat around the truth that Utah is doing a great job on maintaining student health. Style wise, I thought the article was fairly effective. He followed a nice introduction with some powerful “facts” that there was a problem that needed to be taken care of—whether that be true or not.