How might the Institute for Propaganda Analysis respond to Daniel Okrent’s assertion that “the Times’s earnest effort to avoid bias can desiccate language and dilute meaning” (para. 16)?
Chapter 10 - Making Connections: How might the Institute for Propaganda Analysis respond to Daniel Okrent’s assertion that “the Times’s earnest effort to avoid bias can desiccate language and dilute meaning” (para. 16)?
Is the main point made by Michiko Kakutani more like the one Okrent or Frank Luntz makes? Explain your response.
Chapter 10 - Making Connections: Which of the authors in this Conversation would probably not find Mike Lester’s cartoon funny? Why?
Using what you learned in the piece by the Institute for Propaganda Analysis, select two examples from the pieces by Kakutani or Geoffrey Nunberg and discuss which propaganda devices you detect.
Chapter 10 - Making Connections: Using what you learned in the piece by the Institute for Propaganda Analysis, select two examples from the pieces by Kakutani or Geoffrey Nunberg and discuss which propaganda devices you detect.
Which examples from “Words That Work” might Okrent cite to illustrate his claim that “hijacking the language proves especially pernicious when government officials deodorize their programs with near-Orwellian euphemism” (para. 12)?
Chapter 10 - Making Connections: Which examples from “Words That Work” might Okrent cite to illustrate his claim that “hijacking the language proves especially pernicious when government officials deodorize their programs with near-Orwellian euphemism” (para. 12)?