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Its so ironic that the author is a journalism professor. This article would make for a perfect Journalism 101 case study on cheap rhetorical tricks: appeal to a
by lstyls 12y ago
Its so ironic that the author is a journalism professor. This article would make for a perfect Journalism 101 case study on cheap rhetorical tricks: appeal to anecdote, straw man, etc.
- beat 12y agoReminds me of seeing Neil Postman speak oh so many years ago. I got there late, and met a friend (still a friend, he's my patent attorney now) leaving. Asked him how it was, and he was like, "Neil Postman is a cretin". Totally anti-tech reactionary. He was railing about how word processors were going to destroy literacy, and we should all write with pencils like a Real Journalist.