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.
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Tag Archives: politics
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
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