The Rhetorica Network offers analysis and commentary about media ethics and the rhetoric, propaganda, biases, and spin of journalism. This site features the Media Ethics and Rhetoric Journal web log, comprehensive news media links, a rhetoric textbook, a primer of critical techniques, and information for citizens. The character of Rhetorica represents the purposes and canons of classical rhetoric. --Andrew R. Cline, Ph.D.
A good example of the structural biases of television news may be seen in the handling of the Elizabeth Smart disappearance versus the more than 100 missing children in the Florida Department of Children & Families case. Smart’s case saturates the news. The Florida case does not.
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