Voices

Voices
People have a natural curiously about news and gossip. Before written language became popular most news if not all news were passed down by word of mouth. This method had its flaws because the story could be misheard or delivered poorly with each person. This effect is popularized these days in a game called Telephone. The premise of Telephone is to give a message to a student in a classroom and that student will tell the same message to another student, and this process keeps on going until all the students had a chance to hear the message and at the end the last student tells the teacher what he or she heard.
This style of news giving would last for a while, with street annunciation in the medieval ages, where the servants of the King would get the latest news from the kingdom. During this time is were written language evolved into a major player. Only a few people knew how to read and write during this age, this ability is titled being literate. So if people wanted to write to one another they had to go to these scholars to get their message written and read.
Literacy grew the most during the Renascence, were arts and science grew as well. During this era a majority of people, from peasants to aristocrats, had a moderate literacy levels according to their civil status. Messages were know inscribed by hand more often, but not in large scales. Posters and bulletin boards were the media of choice.
The printing press is a land mark in the mass distribution of news. These could turn out 10,000 copies of a newspaper in one hour. With the Internet a dream is met, only writing once and allowing millions of people access it in no time flat. With this type of power, people can read other peoples opinions ideas in an easy and fast way.
Here are some ways that writers use in their opinion pieces.

Ethos
In California, navigating your taxes could be tricky
The author here uses the word could strategically. This persuades the reader to read closer to find and follow the suggestions the author gives, and that there is no trick at all and was just a red haring.
Pathos
Life in a year: At the third-grade play, growing into role as independent boys, girls
“During the first few years of their lives, children know they can count on a doting parent to kiss their boo-boos, to dry their tears, and too make all their problems go away. But by age 8, life intrudes. And one day you are standing on a stage, waiting for somebody to tell you what to say next.”
This excerpt shows how the author is playing with the emotion of the reader, taking them back to their former self’s with “kiss their boo-boos, to dry their tears, and too make all their problems go away..” and then throwing the reader in scared shoes “And one day you are standing on a stage, waiting for somebody to tell you what to say next.” These give little to no information and focuses on emotions.
Logos
'Shopaholic' actor says she's only acting
The author proceeds to prove this point by giving the personality traits of the actress and how she went from rags to riches and how she is nothing like her character in a logical form of way.
Communities
http://www.oprah.com/entity/oprahsbookclub
Oprah’s book club is a great example of how communities are build by writers work.