On the Program - July 15th 2008
Hour One - Roger Shuler www.legalschnauzer.blogspot.com Topic: He was fired from his job at the University of Alabama for blogging about his support for Gov. Siegelman
Hour Two - Dan Gainor www.businessandmedia.org Topic: Is economic recession/ depression real or media manufactured?
Hour Three - Naomi Klein www.naomiklein.org , author of The Shock Doctrine Topic: Naomi has joined the ACLU lawsuit claiming the new FISA bill prevents her from doing her work.
Thom's Travel & Events Coming Up…
July 18th - Grand Rapids, MI - Thom broadcasts from affiliate WTKG...then 6:30-7:30pm, booksigning & dinner buffet courtesy of Lanning's Catering at the UAW Regional Offices at East Beltline Avenue NE @ Leonard Street NE in Grand Rapids (3300 Leonard NE, Grand Rapids, MI 49525-3363, ph: 616/949-4100)
August 2 & 3 - Madison, WI - Thom is speaking Saturday - NonStop Radio Symposium, Exhibition Hall, Alliant Energy Center, 1919 Alliant Energy Center Way www.nonstopradio.com
August 16 - Seattle, WA - KPTK 1090 AM - Looking Forward/Moving Forward/What Now - Roundtable Forum 6:30pm - 7:30pm Seattle Center Exhibition Hall
Satire vs irony
Hey Thom,
You're right in that the New Yorker cover is not very successful as satire. But wait! Could it be irony? A couple of definitions:
Irony is a literary or rhetorical device, in which there is an incongruity or discordance between what a speaker or a writer says; and what he or she means, or is generally understood.
A statement that, when taken in context, may actually mean the opposite of what is written literally; the use of words expressing something other than their literal intention; The quality or state of an event being both coincidental and contradictory in a humorous or poignant and extremely ...
Definitely that, in my opinion. And, as it was years ago when I was an English teacher, irony is the harder to perceive than satire.
Thanks
Jim Kohn
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By jimbokJuly 15, 2008 - 12:04pm