Word: groupthinker
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...Wendy has an insatiable curiosity," says chief of correspondents Joelle Attinger, "that routinely takes her beyond groupthink or the easy take on just about any story." Says assistant managing editor Stephen Koepp, who edited the Fargo story: "She has a rare affinity for both people and numbers, which can bring a policy story vibrantly to life...
...movie's press packet, Interfilm's CEO and president Bob Bejan asserts that, "Interactive motion pictures provide a group activity and a social interaction unequaled in any other entertainment forum." In my mind, yelling at strangers in a movie theater bears more similarity to groupthink than to positive social interaction, and the movie's interactivity is the interactivity of the money exchange. That's life in the modern world: the home shopping network defines our idea of interactivity. The endings for regular movies are chosen by focus groups; that process is simply brought into the open here...
...Kundera's characters are outsiders by choice, but all are barred from the consolations of groupthink. They cringe at shared beliefs: "The best of all possible progressive ideas is the one which is provocative enough so its supporters can feel proud of being different, but popular enough so the risk of isolation is precluded by cheering crowds confident of victory." Kundera's men find the messianic earnestness of an orgy either frightening or funny. They do not believe that indiscriminate sex or any other contemporary anodyne will save them. They live perilously close to what Kundera calls...
...House favors. For a variety of reasons, there's much less of that kind of exchange these days. The interesting phenomenon is that Washington commentators sympathetic to Carter became disillusioned with him before much of the rest of the country did. Was this a case of claustrophobic Potomac groupthink or of closer knowledge? Some of both. Reporters recognized Carter's genuine concern about the Iranian hostages but disliked the way he used the situation to his political advantage. The liberal Mary McGrory also thinks that reporters spotted a mean streak in Carter long before the public read what...
...first half of the meeting, the carefully selected and well-prepared students put on an impressive display of Cuban groupthink. But then Congressman Solarz tried to inject some spontaneity into the discussion-and caught the students off guard. When he called for a show of hands by those who had friends fighting in Angola or Ethiopia, 16 were hesitantly raised. He asked how many of the students had friends who had been killed or wounded in Africa; by reflex, four students started to raise their hands. But University Vice Rector Fernando Rojas made an urgent, commanding gesture that caused...