Defining Terms Shapes Debate
Don’t believe claims that language doesn’t matter, that words cannot do harm, that they are “just words.” Politics is replete with “facts” that are not so, but that frame the debate on consequential matters.
An amusing book about misleading language unfortunately treats the Left more gently than the Right.
Those who read, watch, and listen to the news lose when media outlets decide to ignore the “wrong” side.
Those who read, watch, and listen to the news lose when media outlets decide to ignore the “wrong” side.
Those who read, watch, and listen to the news lose when media outlets decide to ignore the “wrong” side.
Lee Ellis' memoir of life as a POW in Vietnam provides stories of great courage from the survivors.
Propagandists are using terms like "climate change" rather than "global warming" to confuse the public and drum up support for draconian regulations.
Never, never let someone suggest that language doesn't matter, that words cannot do harm, that they are "just words."
Look up the word in a dictionary, and you will find not just a term of description but also a lesson in the power of propaganda to shape political and philosophical debates.
There’s at least one major difference between Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama: their use of campaign art.
In my first journalism course in 1971 we were given an example of what makes journalism superior to advertising. It involved a Shell Oil commercial that ran in the late-‘60s and early-’70s touting an additive called Platformate.
RALEIGH — At breakfast one morning in 1992, while visiting a friend in the ancient Russian city of Kostroma, I asked my host about a black box sitting on a shelf above the kitchen table. “Oh," he said, looking up from his kasha and tea, "that’s our Stalin radio.”