Interesting article
this morning about the State of the Union and about how its delivery has
changed, from one where the President talks to the two chambers to one where
guests are also part of the delivery, and of course, what's unstated, is the
role that media play in this delivery. It's called "State of
the symbolism: Speech guests help put human faces on rhetoric," and it
draws attention to how these faces--in last night's case, many faces touched by
gun violence--constitute part of the rhetoric. That's not the way the article
puts it, but the question, for me: is this a new form of delivery bringing
together the embodied with the electronic, or does this mechanism in fact
constitute part of the rhetoric by means of establishing a collective ethos?
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