<span>D. He is appealing to the audience's sense of logic.
Appealing to the audience's sense of logic is called logos, and it is an important part of the Rhetorical Triangle. Audiences need logic, facts, statistics in order to trust the information that the speaker is presenting. The use of statistics here is appealing to that logic. </span>
Fool, idiot, unintelligent ..
Emotional impact to a news story is a way of targeting audience with the use of emotions, making them to feel emotional with the news that is given or informed to them. In the choices above, the best answer that corresponds to the question is letter d, a video showing people stranded on the roof of their flooded home. It is because this is a news that could keep people from showing emotions in which they feel bad and sorry than of the other choices which does not give emotions compared to this one.