About Rhetorica
This blog has a long history by blogging standards. It began as the Timeline blog in 1998, which was a part of a site I created in grad school called Presidential Campaign Rhetoric 2000. In 2002, I re-branded everything and created the Rhetorica: Press Politics Journal. I had a modest amount of success in the early days of blogging as quantified by links, page views, and reader engagement. All of that history is available on Archive.org. In later years, I tried a few different things, including recently abandoning the blog (following a major snafu in which I lost much of my content) and making Rhetorica a portfolio site for my documentary filmmaking. But I’ve re-banded again, so Rhetorica will once again be a rhetoric blog. My documentary work can be found at Eyewitness.
Greatest Hits
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A Television Show Called America
There are two ways that I understand the rhetorical strategies of President Donald Trump. As a quick aside: When I say strategy here I do not mean to indicate that I think Trump is employing particular rhetorical strategies on purpose, … Continue reading
The Rhetoric of Expat
I would find this annoying if I were not professionally and intellectually interested in the rhetoric of definitions. “Expat,” informal for expatriate, is a contested term. The standard dictionary denotation is “a person who lives outside their native country.” By … Continue reading
Rhetorica Update
If you take a look on the sidebar under Greatest Hits, you’ll see a growing list of links today to series content from the old Rhetorica. I’m planning to pull more content from the archive back onto this site where … Continue reading
No More LOLs to Give
Rhetorica started out as a press-politics journal following, critiquing, and explaining the rhetoric of political reporting and politics. I gave up because I came to see my efforts as wasted on a system that cannot change. Whomping your head against … Continue reading
White House Creates Media Bias Web Portal
Charges of media bias focused on partisanship are usually attempts to spin an audience or keep an audience in ideological line. Both of these goals seem to be in play in the new media bias web portal published by the … Continue reading
I Wish Strauss & Howe Were Wrong
We’ve had a lot of time to think about the theory of cyclical history as posited by Strauss & Howe in their numerous books starting with Generations: The History of America’s Future. I’ve been interested in this idea since first … Continue reading
Rhetorica Update
On the sidebar, you’ll see links under the heading Greatest Hits. These will be links to material — blog essays or other compilations — from the Rhetorica: Press-Politics Journal as described in the About section of the sidebar. I’ll be … Continue reading
Lots of Changes
I’m in the middle of making lots of changes. Eyewitness is my new professional domain. (under construction) Frame by Frame will continue. Rhetorica may go back to being some kind of blog about Rhetoric. Carbon Trace Productions is still dormant. … Continue reading