lies – John Backman

Care Like a Citizen, Think Like a Journalist (Part 1)

By admin|2016-09-14T08:21:14-04:00September 14th, 2016|Dialogue and Current Events, Dialogue and Language, Dialogue and Media|

Political lies used to imply that there was a truth…. Evidence, consistency and scholarship had political power. Today a growing number of politicians and pundits simply no longer care. They are content with what Stephen [...]

Fox News, Paul Ryan, and Standing Knee-Deep in Campaign Verbiage

By admin|2012-09-04T06:55:21-04:00September 4th, 2012|Dialogue and Current Events, Dialogue and Media, Practical Steps Toward Dialogue|

Sometimes, in this U.S. election season, you have a dig through a certain amount of misleading verbiage to get a better handle on the story. This came to mind last week when a startling tidbit [...]