TOW #19 - ISIS Article

This article on the  growing ISIS terror threat in the middle eastern part of the world details its development in the area and its movement to a global level. It was written by FOX News, and it has two distinct goals in its presentation of the news development to its audience of mostly adult American conservatives. These two distinct goals are the encouragement of American cooperation and trust in the nation of Israel, a close nation geographically to the countries ISIS is leading., and the perhaps justified fear of the American people towards ISIS.
Israel has long been an ally of the United States, and we them. In order to defend our mutually beneficial geopolitical relationship. The writer of the article goes out of their way to defend Israel. To much of the world, the dominating conflict in the middle east is the turf and philosophical war between Palestine and Israel. It is difficult to hear tell of Muslim aggression in the middle east without that conflict being brought to mind. Even though the two are unrelated and those in Israel have nothing to do with this event, the writer mentions them just to secure this fact and even edifies it with expert quotes.
It is not difficult for the American media to breed fear of ISIS. It is not difficult for the American media to breed fear of anything, and ISIS is inherently scary. It is a terror group, after all. With word choice like, "tectonic" and notoriously, this FOX article attempts to inspire fear in its readers. Scared readers are reliable readers because they will seek out knowledge not out of curiosity or interest but out of fear that ignorance means danger. This isn't to say that fear is an unreasonable response, or that FOX has to do much to the information it presents in order to guarantee fear, only that that is the tactic it is using, and that it is wildly effective.
Through both choice of the content discussed in the debriefing of this latest development in ISIS terrorist affairs and word choice when describing individual aspects of the content, this FOX News article is highly effective in its ability to inspire fear and trust in the same event. Fear and trust may seen contradictory, but they are pulled off well.