Doublespeak Defined

Author : William D. Lutz
Publisher : HarperPB
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1999-07-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0062734121

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Doublespeak Defined by William D. Lutz Pdf

In an increasingly Orwellian world, everyone should be armed with this hilarious, slyly subversive deconstruction of the slippery locutions of spinmeisters from all walks of public life. Doublespeak guru William Lutz (Doublespeak, The New Doublespeak) is uniquely qualified to bring you this supremely funny expos‚ of the juiciest ways THEY are trying to bamboozle you! A sampling of Doublespeak Defined: Bald n./ :hair disadvantaged Men in Japan aren't bald; they're "hair disadvantaged," according to The Japan Economic Journal. Diet n./ :1.nutrional avoidance therapy 2. caloric reduction program Frozen adj./ :1 deep chilled 2. fresh 3. hard chilled 4. previously frozen The USDA considers processed chickens "fresh," not frozen, if they have been chilled to 28 degrees Fahrenheit. Chickens so processed have not been frozen but "deep chilled." Light Switch n./ :ideogram illumination intensity adjustment potentiometer Waste paper basket n./ :user-friendly, space-effective, flexible desk side sortation unit Government officials in Toronto, Canada, paid $123.80 (Canadian) each for these items.

Author : William Lutz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : English language
ISBN : OCLC:1148915577

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Doublespeak Defined by William Lutz Pdf

Author : William Lutz
Publisher : Ig Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : English language
ISBN : 1632460173

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Doublespeak by William Lutz Pdf

Describes the four different types of doublespeak (euphemism, jargon, gobbledygook, and inflated language).

Author : William Lutz
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Jargon (Terminology).
ISBN : 0060928395

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The New Doublespeak by William Lutz Pdf

The author "exposes the latest doublespeak that permeates what passes for communication in our society."--Jacket.

Author : Paul Wasserman,Don Hausrath
Publisher : Capital Books
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1933102071

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Weasel Words by Paul Wasserman,Don Hausrath Pdf

With more than 1,200 terms, this A to Z dictionary is a hard-hitting, politically savvy translation of all those evasions, put-on-holds, distortions, circumventions, obfuscations, and misleading terms used by government, businesses, and the media.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Communication in politics
ISBN : UOM:39015066305528

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Quarterly Review of Doublespeak by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mickey Huff,Andy Lee Roth,Project Censored
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781609807160

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Censored 2017 by Mickey Huff,Andy Lee Roth,Project Censored Pdf

The annual yearbook from Project Censored features the year's most underreported news stories, striving to unmask censorship, self-censorship, and propaganda in corporate-controlled media outlets. Featuring the top 25 most underreported stories, as voted by scholars, journalists, and activists across the country and around the world, as well as chapters exploring timely issues from the previous year with more in-depth analysis.

Author : Mickey Huff,Andy Lee Roth,Project Censored
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781609804947

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Censored 2014 by Mickey Huff,Andy Lee Roth,Project Censored Pdf

Truthout’s Progressive Pick of the Week Ralph Nader’s 10 Books to Provoke Conversation in 2014 Every year since 1976, Project Censored, our nation's oldest news-monitoring group--a university-wide project at Sonoma State University founded by Carl Jensen, directed for many years by Peter Phillips, and now under the leadership of Mickey Huff--has produced a Top-25 list of underreported news stories and a book, Censored, dedicated to the stories that ought to be top features on the nightly news, but that are missing because of media bias and self-censorship. Seven Stories Press has been publishing this yearbook since 1994, featuring the top stories listed democratically in order of importance according to an international panel of judges. Beyond the Top-25 stories, additional chapters delve further into timely media topics: The Censored News and Media Analysis section provides annual updates on Junk Food News and News Abuse, Censored Deja Vu, signs of hope in the alternative and news media, and the state of media bias and alternative coveragearound the world. In the Truth Emergency section, scholars and journalists take a critical look at the US/NATO military-industrial-media empire. And in the Project Censored International section, the meaning of media democracy worldwide is explored in close association with Project Censored affiliates in universities and at media organizations all over the world. A perennial favorite of booksellers, teachers, and readers everywhere, Censored is one of the strongest lifesigns of our current collective desire to get the news we citizens need--despite what Big Media tells us.

Author : Mickey Huff,Andy Lee Roth
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781609808709

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Censored 2019 by Mickey Huff,Andy Lee Roth Pdf

“For more thanforty years, Project Censored has been our watchdog on the establishment media, casting its eye on how the information that we receive––and don’t receive––shapes our democracy. We need it more than ever today!” —Christopher Finan, Executive Director, National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) THESE ARE JUST A FEW OF THE STORIES PRESENTED IN CENSORED 2019: --“Open-Source” Intelligence Secrets Sold to Highest Bidders --ICE Intends to Destroy Records of Inhumane Treatment of Immigrants --Indigenous Communities around World Helping to Win Legal Rights of Nature --FBI Racially Profiling “Black Identity Extremists” --The Limits of Negative News and Importance of Constructive Media DID YOU KNOW THAT SINCE 1998 THE US GOVERNMENT SPENT $21 TRILLION IT CAN’T ACCOUNT FOR? Or that Internet co-ops are mobilizing poor communities to resist net neutrality rollbacks? How about the health risks of wireless tech that cell phone companies have covered up, or the opiate crisis that Big Pharma knowingly unleashed? Haven’t heard the news? Neither did the rest of the world. That’s because these and countless other news items are suppressed or ignored by our nation’s “free press” every day. For the past forty-three years, Project Censored has been unearthing the buried stories that corporate media deem unfit to print—and debunking the “fake news” governments and corporations use to consolidate their power—to promote well-informed citizen action and critical media literacy. This year’s Project Censored yearbook features: -- “Vetting Free Speech” by Sally Gimson, Layli Foroudi, and Sean Gallagher -- “#TimesUp: Breaking the Barriers of Sexual Harassment in Corporate Media for You and #MeToo” by Julie Frechette -- “Data Activism through Community Mapping and Data Visualization” by Dorothy Kidd -- “How Mainstream Media Evolved into Corporate Media” by Peter Phillips -- “Campus–Newsroom Collaborations” by Patricia W. Elliott -- “The Public and Its Problems” by Susan Maret Plus Junk Food News, News Abuse, and Media Democracy in Action. In a time of decline in the rule of law and democratic safeguards, Project Censored offers a constructive alternative to the “fake news” blues, holding the corporate media to account for its negative bias, propaganda for wealth and power, and outright censorship.

Author : Mickey Huff,Andy Lee Roth,Project Censored
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781609806460

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Censored 2016 by Mickey Huff,Andy Lee Roth,Project Censored Pdf

The annual yearbook from Project Censored features the year's most underreported news stories, striving to unmask censorship, self-censorship, and propaganda in corporate-controlled media outlets. Censored 2016 features the top-25 most underreported stories, as voted by scholars, journalists, and activists across the country and around the world, as well as chapters exploring timely issues from the previous year with more in-depth analysis.

Author : Bathroom Readers' Institute
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781607106791

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Uncle John's Absolutely Absorbing Bathroom Reader by Bathroom Readers' Institute Pdf

It’s one of Uncle John’s most popular editions! More than 500 pages of absolutely absorbing material are at your fingertips. Divided for your convenience into short, medium, and long articles, this book has it all: humor, history, pop culture, politics, wordplay, quotations, blunders, facts, and more. Settle in and read about… * The world’s rarest rock ’n’ roll record * The secret history of the lava lamp * Da Vinci’s unfinished masterpiece * Famous unsolved disappearances * Animals famous for 15 minutes * The world’s luckiest accident * The birth of the T-shirt * Big, bad Barbie * Cereal flops And much, much more!

Author : Mickey Huff,Andy Lee Roth,Project Censored
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781609807825

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Censored 2018 by Mickey Huff,Andy Lee Roth,Project Censored Pdf

"[Censored] should be affixed to the bulletin boards in every newsroom in America. And, perhaps, read aloud to a few publishers and television executives."--RALPH NADER The annual yearbook from Project Censored features the year's most underreported news stories, striving to unmask censorship, self-censorship, and propaganda in corporate-controlled media outlets. Featuring the top 25 most underreported stories, as voted by scholars, journalists, and activists across the country and around the world, as well as chapters exploring timely issues from the previous year with more in-depth analysis.

Author : Mickey Huff,Andy Lee Roth,Project Censored
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781609805661

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Censored 2015 by Mickey Huff,Andy Lee Roth,Project Censored Pdf

Every year since 1976, Project Censored, our nation's oldest news-monitoring group—a university-wide project at Sonoma State University founded by Carl Jensen, directed for many years by Peter Phillips, and now under the leadership of Mickey Huff—has produced a Top-25 list of underreported news stories and a book, Censored, dedicated to the stories that ought to be top features on the nightly news, but that are missing because of media bias and self-censorship. A perennial favorite of booksellers, teachers, and readers everywhere, Censored is one of the strongest life-signs of our current collective desire to get the news we citizens need--despite what Big Media tells us.

Author : Andy Lee Roth
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781609809614

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Censored 2020 by Andy Lee Roth Pdf

In the midst of Trump's attacks on the media, comes this look at the rigorous, independent reporting of the year's most underreported news stories. While the country's president displays a brazen disregard for the First Amendment and routinely demonizes the press as "the enemy of the people," Censored 2020 looks beyond Donald Trump's dizzying contempt for the truth to clarify the corporate media's complicity in misinforming the American public--while also providing a clear vision of a better future, based on rigorous, trustworthy independent reporting that presents a fuller picture of truth. With a discerning eye, Censored 2020 focuses the public's attention on the most important but underreported news stories of 2018-2019. These stories expose the corporate news media's systemic blind spots while highlighting the crucial role played by independent journalists in providing the kind of news necessary for informed, engaged citizens. The book also examines this year's lowlights in "junk food news" and "news abuse"--further revealing how corporate news often functions as propaganda--as well as highlights of exemplary organizations that champion "Media Democracy in Action." Additional chapters address the importance of constructive journalism, the untold story of Kashmir, news coverage of LGBTQ issues in the Trump era, "fake news" as a Trojan horse for censorship, and online memes as a form of political communication.

Author : Mickey Huff,Andy Lee Roth
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781644210277

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Project Censored's State of the Free Press 2021 by Mickey Huff,Andy Lee Roth Pdf

The new and improved "Censored," detailing the top censored stories and media analysis of 2020. Our nation's oldest news-monitoring group, Project Censored, refreshes its longstanding yearbook series, Censored, with State of the Free Press 2021. This edition offers a more succinct and comprehensive survey of the most important but underreported news stories of 2020; in addition to a comparative analysis of the current state of corporate and independent news media, and its effect on democracy. The establishment media sustains a decrepit post-truth era, as examined the lowlight features: "Junk Food News"-frivolous stories that distract the public from actual news-and-"News Abuse"-important stories covered in ways that undermine public understanding. The alternative media provokes a burgeoning critical media literacy age, as evaluated in the highlight feature: "Media Democracy in Action"-relevant stories responsibly reported on by independent organizations. Finally, in an homage to the history of the annual report, the editors reinstate the "Déjà vu News" feature-revisited stories from previous editions. State of the Free Press 2021 endows readers with the critical thinking and media literacy skills required to hold the corporate media to account for distorting or censoring news coverage, and thus, to revitalize our democracy.