Word: guilting
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Journalists would be foolish, though, to think we can guilt people into buying our work in part to preserve our uniquely holy calling. (Try arguing that to a laid-off factory worker.) As with any other service, people will buy it or they won't. Yes, news audiences will have to recognize that "free" information may mean more sponsorships and piper payers calling the tune. But journalists will have to accept that some members of our audience are, in fact, willing to make that trade-off, just as they live with product placement in movies...
Health-Care Provision As an American who has lived in France for 20 years, I read "Health Lessons from Europe" with the usual delight and guilt-ridden schadenfreude typical of us expats who enjoy the health-care system here [June 1]. Fourteen years ago, I received a letter from the Sécurité Sociale informing me that I had to book a pelvic X-ray for my then newborn daughter - or risk losing out on future reimbursements and coverage. Several days later, when the results revealed everything to be normal, I asked the radiologist how many infants were diagnosed...
...except this one, maybe out of indifference, but more often out of humility. Most fathers I know make fun of themselves, and of the mystery of it all, as though content that being a parent is a skill you practice but never master. There is much doubt, but less guilt. Apple calls American Fatherhood "the longest-running identity crisis of all time," but largely refrains from offering fellow new fathers any advice--though in the course of his journey, he encounters so much nonsense on how to Build Better Children that one develops an allergy to the whole notion...
...teens are shopping at cheaper places or permitting their parents to buy clothes from these outlets, does that mean teens, like, get it? Are they fully aware that their summer-job prospects are dim, that their parents' employment prospects may be dimmer and that it's unfair to guilt Mom and Dad into spending money on expensive clothes? Are kids these days actually acting responsibly? "More than ever, we're seeing that teens are responding to value," says Jeffrey Klinefelter, an equity-research analyst at Piper Jaffray who has written a semiannual research report, "Taking Stock in Teens...
...want to see Dinda's photos, otherwise click No. But you have to click!" Funny, there were no "Yes" or "No" tabs in the e-mail. Below that message it said, "Please respond or Dinda may think you said no :(" The sad face is a strong guilt trip. (See the five websites to avoid...