Word: notionalism
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...will improve the quality of local news and support free over-the-air broadcast television,” many have seen through Bush’s usual rhetorical wiles. Conservative columnist William Safire recently corrected Bush’s “free TV” notion, pointing out that “four-fifths of broadcast network TV is now delivered to homes by cable or satellite—not free—and NBC, ABC, CBS, and Fox are making money hand over fist,” not to mention the muddy logic of how an impersonal media...
...seen a lot of pretty striking looking women. I mean, you can’t walk away from the beauty part of it. Yes, people play the piano, and they speak to their issue, whatever that may be, but does it not hold back up that kind of exclusive notion of beauty that leaves a whole lot of women out in the cold, that feminism was intended to ease...
Anti-Americanism suddenly attained a new political function as a source of unity through othering. While it still remains unclear what concrete commonality Danes and Greeks share in their daily lives—and anchors their abstract notion of being “European”—they are both very tangibly not American. The Bush Administration’s policies, especially in the war against Iraq, have helped Europeans a great deal in legitimizing this abstraction...
...equality is a fable, that the misfortunes of millions aren’t our problem—that, simply put, “life ain’t fair.” Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly likely go to sleep at night with the comfortable notion that they deserve what they have, and that the jobless, homeless and uninsured deserve their fate as well. This year in America, the same sort have purchased a higher percentage of SUVs than ever before, and doubtless, did not feel a shred of guilt. But hey, at least they?...
Krugman also said that many journalists are unwilling to touch certain issues due to the notion of “reverence with the office of the president...