Examples of

logical fallacies in
media
 Ad
01 Hominem
Song “Complicated” by Avril Lavigne

“Somebody else
Round everyone else
Watching your back
Like you can’t relax
You tryin to be cool
You look like a fool to me”
https://youtu.be/5NPBIwQyPWE?t=63
 Trump attacks CNN reporter
“You are a rude, terrible person”

https://youtu.be/v3abZ4aAGUU?t=117
Ted Cruz's appearance on MSNBC's 'Hardball with Chris
Matthews'

https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=nnj-QZ5MA6OU_nUo&embeds_referring_euri=https%3
A%2F%2Fwww.google.kz%2F&source_ve_path=MTY0OTksMjg2NjQsMTY0NTA2&feat
ure=emb_share&v=pDYvTMpTrjU
 Look who’s
02 talking
(Tu Quoque)
 Cartoon “Futurama”
Amy: You can’t just put people on display. It’s cruel!

Dr.Bango: Cruel? Was it cruel when human caged other

primates in zoos for centuries?

https://youtu.be/MvglX222Pxg?t=1
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03 Fallacy of
Equivocation
Terry Ross’s “Whiskey speech” (1952)

https://youtu.be/wmuMLd_lAIU
 Emotional
04 Fallacy
Appealing to emotion in reality show

https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=YRa1qbhabhAZ-6O7&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F
%2Fblog.apaonline.org%2F&source_ve_path=MTY0OTksMjg2NjQsMTY0NTA2&feature=em
b_share&v=JEzE3L-NKL4
 05
Red Herring
2020 U.S. Presidential Debates

https://youtu.be/-gm-GMIjNpo?t=122
 06
Bandwagon
argument
 Song “Cool kids” by Echosmith

“I wish that I could be like the cool kids

Cause all the cool kids, they seem to fit in
I wish that I could be like the cool kids
Like the cool kids”

https://youtu.be/SSCzDykng4g?t=54
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