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Bully Pulpit

The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Monday, August 07, 2006

Anti-spin from the blogosphere

Jeff Goldstein of Protein Wisdom provides some excellent analysis of the old media's agit-prop spinning on the Israeli-Hizbollah conflict.


The subtle rhetorical efforts at framing this story are worth pointing out, if only to show how even (apparently) straightforward news reporting can contain rather serious finesse points that direct the reader toward a predetermined conclusion.


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