SWA #21

The Onion in this piece is trying to argue that the American people don't read anything anymore because they figure if it is important then they will see a video clip on tv or it would have a picture by it. They are saying that the citizens have been forced down to such an elementary level that in order for anyone to read it there has to be a picture or something to catch their attention. We see this in the article through the writers sarcastic comments and the people he is interviewing comments it becomes especially sarcastic in the end where he quotes the person as saying "I'm sure if it's important enough, they'll let us know some other way, after all, it can't be that serious. if there were anything worth while bburied deep in that block of impenetrable Englsih, it would at least have an accompanying phonto of a celebrity" The writer uses the form of hyperbole to stregnthen his arguement by trying to show how rediculous some people in our country have become. He tries to show people these extreme cases so people will make sure they are not like the people who have been quoted in the article. He almost tries to make his reader feel as though they are the people that are being quoted to make them realize what has become of our country.