Rhetorica Update
This is final exam week at MSU. I’m giving all three today. That’s good because I can do the grading in one long sitting tomorrow. And that means I’ll have a little blogging breathing room at the end of the week–be able to catch up on a few issues.
Again, I have deadlines approaching for my book manuscript and an essay. So blogging will continue to be slow for a bit. But, since things are going well, I may be back to a “normal” blogging schedule the first week of January.
While sitting there watching students take tests, I’ve been reading the Lou Dobbs profile from last week’s The New Yorker. I found this quote fascinating:
“It’s very different from any program you’ll see on TV, by intention,” Dobbs said, as we ordered the fifty-six-dollar Dover sole. “What you won’t see on our broadcast is ‘fair and balanced journalism.’ You will not see ‘objective journalism.’ The truth is not ‘fair and balanced.’ There is a nonpartisan, independent reality that doesn’t give a damn, frankly, what two Democrats and two Republicans think about anything or say about anything.”
Care to guess why? 
Am I drunk? or is this profile supposed to be an exercise in ecstatic truth? I have to admit now I have a picture Lou Dobbs driving around in an RV somewhere watching Werner Herzog films on the onboard DVD as he swerves not to run soccer moms into the ditch. Frightening.
hahaha!
Avoid foxnews gentlemen, it has warped your minds to the point of breaking. Lou Dobbs while not a great journalist at least trys to stick up for the little people that the recent political system has forgoten or in fact never cared for. I suppose in the grander scheme, no national government or epoch really cares for its people, only that they can use them and inspire them to kill other people.
God Bless America… I won’t