Marc Jampole's blog will analyze the news media and other forms of mass communications as tools for shaping ideology and reinforcing social mores and myths.
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Holiday commercials are starting to appear in TV and radio. I love to look at them for clues to the current state of things.
For example, one of the TV commercials that Wal-Mart is running for the 2010 holiday season is a cross-cut between two...
In this past Sunday’s “Week in Review” section, New York Times’ food writer Mark Bittman describes the shared emotions of millions of people when approaching the task of cooking the sacred and sacrificial bird of late November. Does Bittman...
Business Week has published a list of the best places to raise children and surprise, surprise, the Top 10 are all small suburbs or rural towns except for Honolulu. All these suburbs are without mass transit and most have very low minority...
I know I’m late to this trend, but it seems to me that there has recently been an enormous increase in the number of news stories in which the essence of the plot reduces to someone caught doing something very bad or very good on video or cell phone...
Argument by anecdote is when you prove a point with a story. It is a very compelling argument, because people like stories about other people more than they like cold, hard facts. Too often, though, the argument by anecdote is used when the facts...
