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http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/president-trump-tells-lester-holt-he-s-fighting-hard-legitimacy-n758251
The article above is about President Trump's latest interview with Lester Holt. The diction used by the author, Erik Ortiz, is informational. Ortiz uses may quotes from the interview and then includes some background from the interview. After the quotes he would include sentences like "Holt had also asked whether Trump still has moments where he can't believe he's in the White House". He is not very emotionally attached to the subject or article. The diction shows the authors objective tone because he leaves his own personal judgments aside. Ortiz also uses compound syntax by mixing quotes and quote analysis in the same sentence. For example he wrote ""Do you feel like you're fighting for your legitimacy sometimes?" Holt asked during a 31-minute interview Thursday at the White House, a segment of which aired Friday on TODAY". He does this to give the reader information on the interview. The authors tone in the article is objective. Ortiz doesn't include his opinion on the interview, he simply shares the information about the interview and analyzes it. For example, he writes "Holt had also asked whether Trump still has moments where he can't believe he's in the White House — as evidenced when he said during a Rose Garden event last week: "Hey, I'm president. Can you believe it?"". The purpose of the article was to address the interview and what was talked about by Lester Holt and President Trump. The overall goal is to inform American's of the President's interview. Ortiz writes "Holt asked Trump about the termination letter he sent to Comey in which he wrote, "I greatly appreciate you informing me on three separate occasions that I am not under investigation"". Its value is sharing information with the American public. In the beginning of the article Ortiz talks gives some background information about where the quotes are coming from and a rough idea of what the interview was about. Throughout the article he gave information straight from the interview and quoted from Holt and President Trump. At the end of the article Ortiz wraps up talking about the main ideas of the articles and ending with a quote from Trump, "As far as I'm concerned, I want that thing to be absolutely done properly," he said, adding, "I might even lengthen out the investigation, but I have to do the right thing for the American people. (Comey's) the wrong man for that position". He uses lots of quotes from the interview to support the argument he is making, the argument that there are many questions to Trump's presidency. The argument could be better by adding in some personal analysis. The whole article Ortiz simply analyzes the words being spoken, he doesn't include his feelings towards the words that were being spoken. Personal opinions would've given the argument and extra leg up.
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