The World is Talking. Global Politics

Can cable television ”journalists” envision nothing more for themselves and their medium than live blathering? Stewart nails it…again. What about slowing down?…

That could be a book title. Maybe someday it will be Right now it’s simply the over-grand headline on a…

You don’t have to say something (specific) to say something. For example, you can inflect your voice in a particular way. SHE…

Summer is a good time to do house cleaning around the Rhetorica Network. For example, I’m updating links and fixing links….

John McCain has approached Barack Obama with the idea of holding a series of town hall meetings between now and the…

The Wall Street Journal reports that the hyperlocal LoudounExtra.com project by the Washington Post has largely failed. Isn’t hyperlocal supposed to…

A textbook for an introductory class in journalism ought to be able to define “news” in such a way that I…

Hmmmmm… Stewart asks some good questions. And he’s obviously familiar with the rhetoric beat. And, again, he offers the best media criticism…

It’s a simple-sounding question: What is news? But ask a journalist. Ask 2. Ask 100. What you’ll get is a hash of…

I’ll have more to say about McClellan’s book, or, rather what he’s saying about his book, when I return home (although…