Exigence: Green’s exigence begins as the issue of the penny’s usefulness—how it is no longer useful in our economy and has become a burden to society, but we haven’t taken any steps to get rid of it in the United States. However, the exigence transforms as the podcast goes on, and turns into a broader issue of how money is tied to politics, which leads to corruption and economic equality.
Audience: Green’s audience can embody everyone, because his podcast makes everyone more aware of economic issues, particularly how money is tied to politics and how that leads to corruption because the only issues we can make change on are divisive issues that will be backed by wealthy interest groups. However, his argument particularly targets congress members and other politicians.
I plan to use the genre of the podcast to talk about Green’s podcast, so that I can show how the medium influences the argument.
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