As Luce begins her speech, she introduces her purpose by using a metaphor of "throwing rocks", proposing that it is to criticize, she continues by emphasizing the importance by stating that "the subject is not only of great national significance but also has, one should say, infinite possibilities-and infinite perils to the rock thrower." By saying this, she is making …show more content…
She uses ethos to bring back journalists to the root of the problem, which is that they are no longer focusing on the most basic requirement for good journalism, the extraction and publication of the truth. It is a call to action by Luce to settle themselves to hearing her out, so that they can return to being honest journalists. She states that "no audience is more forgiving (I hope) to the speaker who fails or stumbles in his own pursuit of it [truth]." She says this to ask for them to hear her out, because the sole purpose of her 'rock throwing' is to bring the truth to light, which any true journalist would forgive and take into stride. The only unforgivable action, would be to speak as she had exemplified paragraph three, with a flowery