Analyzing Message in "Mars One Finalist Explains Exactly How it's Ripping off Supporters"

This post will analyze the actual message of the text I have been analyzing, and how gets that message to its audience.

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• The publication date was March 16th, 2015, so it is a pretty recent article, all things considered, especially since Mars One has been around since 2011.
• The medium used was an internet publication site called, ironically enough, medium.com. On this site, and on news sites in general, authors are expected to write somewhat formally, have a point (so they aren't solely bashing someone they don't like, or so they don't get too boring), and they at least need to approach a degree of professionalism. Though it's not one of the big sites that has a massive revenue stream and huge reader base, they, of course, will want to emulate that style.
• The major event that sparked the article in the first place was a NASA researcher who went first-hand into the selection process, to see what it was like, then spoke out against the company's apparent shortcomings from an insider's perspective.
• The major historical event that Mars One is trying to recreate in the modern era, or at least trying to appear to recreate, is the inspiring moon landings and space exploration of the 1960's and 70's. This is important because people want to believe, and therefore, may do so readily, that something great like that will happen again, and that we haven't, as many say, stagnated in the realm of human space exploration.
• The primary source is the NASA researcher, Joseph Roche, who uncovered this information in the first place, and he comes from the same kind of culture of loving science, and supporting space research.
• Physically, this text is separated pretty far from the Netherlands, where Mars One is based. However, that doesn't matter too much, as so are a lot of the applicants, who, according to Roche, don't even meet in person with the staff at Mars One.
• This text is one of the earliest on this particular subject by this author, but after this was published, Mars One had a representative do an interview responding to it, and then this author responded to that interview. So there is more on this subject, and it is almost a dislodge, for one exchange of ideas.

The relevant points here are that the primary source has a first-hand account, and the relationship this subject has to a historically inspiring endeavor. This is because, on one hand, people will likely support another challenging goal, because it worked well the last time, but then this credible source comes about to say it's all a rip-off. This is sure to cause some tension between the public, Mars One and Those who say it's not likely to succeed.

The physical location of the text relative to the event isn't very relevant to this topic, because most of hat is happening occurs over the internet. 

The authors message is pretty clear: here's some evidence that suggests that Mars One isn't what it seems. Really, its a very suspect operation - paraphrased, of course.