"Goth Murder Madness"

http://youtube.com/watch?v=G5psCjK6tzQ


One of my favorite musical artists, Voltaire, gave an interview on FOX news on the subject "what is goth." While he wrote a book on the subject, the main reason for his interview was for insight of a "goth" kid's murder. It's mainly an informative speech, but the newscasters of FOX try to lead his speech into the subject of the murder. Voltaire really tries to get his point across, while the conservative newscasters attempt to manipulate his speech to get their answers.

First, this interview/speech gives a great example ot an informative speech because he tells you that he's going to tell you what goth is. He then proceeds to give a breif history of where goth came from and what type of music goth really is, "the world sucks, and it makes me sad." The newscasters then prompted him to a second part of his speech, which is the "goth look."The newscasters then posted a sinister looking photo of the supposedly goth child murderer, and asked Voltaire if it was a typical goth look (3:20). Voltaire, responds by explaining how there is a variety of "goth" looks. He also cleverly uses comparisons to show how the phrasing of "goth murder" is unfair, because if the kid listened to country or rap music, how it would probably be phrased differently, essentially giving goth a bad repuation because it's "mysterious" or "dangerous" (3:30).

Voltaire then has to explain to the newscasters that not all goths are satanists, and then he continues to explain how satanism isn't the same by explaining how anyone can be a satanist, like high end buisiness men and such (4:00).

Finally, to end his speech, Voltaire then debunks all of the bad assumptions of goths by listing many different types of people who are goth and still good people (4:30). As he's listing these good qualities, the newscaster cuts him off and ends the segment.

I think that Voltaire gave the best speech possible considering his audience, the conservative FOX newscasters. It was obvious how he had to try and simplify his concepts to satisfy the newscasters' lack of knowlege about the subject. He also gave an informative speech on a sensitive subject, which is the murder of a woman by what the public would classify as a "goth kid." He managed to shed some light on the subject, and keep the dignety of the goth culture.