Headlines at the Fox News homepage are as much about talking as about doing: how you say things, and where you fit on Fox's villain-to-virtuous scale, are as important as the things you say and their outcome. Hence the preponderance of head…
Your occasional reminder that American exceptionalism is a powerful campaign-season drug. This Tuesday morning treat from CNN -- two versions, because tweaking the headline doesn't always mean improving the headline -- pushes a couple of bu…
And if you're old enough for that one, you're old enough to have seen a lot of human-induced headline errors, so have another Big Orange and contemplate the mysteries of headline blunders in the age of generative AI.My first thought on "U.S…
Sometimes you just need a full blast of Fox News -- think of the top 10 stories as a sort of tabloid front page, meant to grab your attention as you hurry to the subway stop -- to get a good sense of how agenda-setting works: how to define
As of this writing, it's not clear how thoroughly the Iranians have walked out of the Lake Lucerne meetings, even though *hem* one side seems to have *kaff* skipped clean over the part of the MOU that says "refrain from the threat or use of…
So if you're a fan (and who isn't?) of the agenda-setting function of the Fox News homepage, you too might be wondering about the news value of timeliness: why some events take longer than others to break through, even if you've already see…
Still wondering why I think you used ChatGPT to write your literature review? Because I saw the movie.So, the back story: There I was, trying to respond to a friend on social media, and I could not remember* who said "I shall remember to pa…
So, the back story: There I was, trying to respond to a friend on social media, and I could not remember* who said "I shall remember to pay it -- to myself." My first self-guess was Capt. Renault, but the rest of me laughed at that; it's th…
You can count on the Fair 'n' Balanced Network to get right to the substance when public figures attend sporting events, right? Say, Opening Day at Fenway?Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu were booed by fans at th…
This is not the end of professional editing in media texts, and the beginning of the end of professional editing in media texts is damn near old enough to vote, so it isn't that either. But it is a quantifiable data point in the study of ho…
Your brow might furrow beneath the green eyeshade at several points in the text above (drawn from the day's liveblog, the salience of which is another indicator). "Signalling" or "signaling"? They're equally correct, so if you did what the
... it would take for the tale of the White House Correspondents' Association dinner to become an Obama story? If your answer was "oh, about as long as it took for the 'somberly contemplative and unusually conciliatory'* attitude to fall aw…