bluestateguy
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Mon Apr-14-08 09:52 AM
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Please stop using the word "narrative". That's an MSM word. |
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I don't know why, but the word "narrative" just goes through me like fingers on the chalkboard. It has that MSM sound to it; very Georgetown Cocktail Party.
And now that the punditocracy has taken to using this word all the time, I now find it popping up regularly on DU, much more so than was ever the case in 2004.
This is a presidential primary to pick the leader of the free world, not a story, which is what a "narrative is.
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Mon Apr-14-08 10:22 AM
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1. Do you like "discourse" or 'rhetoric' any better, |
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Edited on Mon Apr-14-08 10:24 AM by HereSince1628
Personally I find the term 'backstory' hard on the ears and it seems to have been recently inserted into the media.
Narrative is a real word, and each campaign does have one it's trying to tell about their candidate.
The level of discourse as in GD-P, has sunk into what would be socially unacceptable in most social settings.
The rhetoric (use of words expressing reasons or emotions to make a case or win an argument) of the campaigns' supporters is mostly devoid of rational presentation of ideas and has become a matter of engaging in insulting verbal jibes.
The backstory is simply that the campaign season is providing little of substance to report on.
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