Posts from ‘March, 2009’

Letting Go of GWOT
With no armistice, surrender or fanfare a war may have quietly come to an end this week. The ‘War on Terror’ is being replaced rhetorically by the Pentagon and the president with ‘Overseas Contingency Operation.’ Political Communications professor Kathleen Hall Jamieson looks back at our most recent metaphorical war and what was [...]

The following is a letter sent on Tuesday by Jake DeSantis, an executive vice president of the American International Group’s financial products unit, to Edward M. Liddy, the chief executive of A.I.G. Op-Ed Contributor - Dear A.I.G., I Quit! - NYT 032509:
DEAR Mr. Liddy,
It is with deep regret that I submit my notice of resignation [...]

I found this exchange between Ed Henry and President Obama particularly disturbing. Anger begets anger. Gotcha journalism comes to  the White House. Obama’s long, winding answer to the initial question deflected its snarky tone, but when Henry persisted, he drew a succinct yet polite rebuke. Read to the end below. Who got whom?
And who is [...]

3/24/09: Presidential Press Conference: The President gave his second press conference, from the East Room of the White House, on March 24, 2009. (public domain). White House channel.
Transcript - President Obama’s News Conference - Text - NYT 032409

stevenberlinjohnson.com: Old Growth Media And The Future Of News.
The metaphors we use to think about changes in media have a lot to tell us about the particular moment we’re in. McLuhan talked about media as an extension of our central nervous system, and we spent forty years trying to figure out how media was re-wiring [...]