I came across this interesting on Yahoo. It stated what the four best foods for your brain are. Based off our textbook, this news article can be considered soft news because I felt it promoted certain foods and services to help reduce your risk of Alzheimers. I learned from the book that hard news and soft news have the same ideological perspective of the ruling classes. This article is smart in having people of expertise quoted within the article, such as Joy Dubost, who is credited with a PhD and RD. The credentials make her a reliable resource and places her a part of the "ruling class". By her explaining certain food groups beneficial for the brain, the general population reading this article are more likely to conform to the same ideas and listen to her advice. Also, the article secretly sells you on the things you should be consuming for brain health. In fact, after stating that cooked salmon would be good for brain health, the article recommends a link to 20 delicious salmon recipes. This link promotes another website and other food products for you to get. It secretly manipulates your views and shapes them so that you agree with the article because of the credibility of the ruling class who have advanced education on the subject and can shape the views of the audience to buy certain foods and change their actions to improve their brain health.
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