A's Word

Photo shows Australian cricket captain Steve Smith on the front pages of the major newspapers in Sydney on March 26, 2018. Australia’s cricketers have heaped disgrace and humiliation on the country, the local press said in blasting the “rotten” team culture under the current leadership following captain Steve Smith admitting he cheated by hatching a plot to tamper with the ball during the third Test against South Africa in Cape Town on March 24, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / Peter PARKS

Communicative and effective or boring and useless?

Articles and opinion pieces have been around since what feels like forever, so what really is the point of an article? Can we really trust what a stranger says to influence our right of an opinion?

“Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance” – Plato

I’m going to be discussing the two articles surrounding the issue of ball-tampering in cricket. The first one (right) was published by ABC News by the author Daryl Adair, associate professor of Sports Management at UTS Business School. The second opinion piece (left) was published by The Guardian and written by Simon Jenkins, Guardian Columnist.

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