Gosh darn you, Ernie : Now I have another assignment -- coming up with choice comments about the politics of persuasion. Years ago I did a study of the psychology or persuasion but my knowledge of the theme is now so rusty that it is only a few steps removed from useless.. OK, OK, time to do some fresh research. It won't be all that much, way too many other things to take care of, but lemmie see what I can come up with. Yeah, Stewart can be on the money, that is one approach. Krauthammer's ad lib philosophizing is another. And I very much like Mara Liason's astute observations and how Juan Williams handles controversy, those are other approaches. My TV preference is for Fox's "Special Report" style presentations, where there always is a bi-partisan panel of genuine experts who thrash issues out, with a moderator who tries to be objective. Stephanopoulos's show on ABC is similar, although some of his "experts" are Democratic Party hacks, like Donna Brasil, but he understands the principle. What else actually works ? That is, content is only part of the game. Format and style are important in and of themselves. Humor can be very useful so the question concerns what is appropriate, under what circumstances ? And much more ! Billy ============================================== In a message dated 3/26/2010 2:40:03 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
Hi Billy, On Mar 26, 2010, at 2:19 PM, [email protected] wrote: > How can we make bi-partisanship a persuasive alternative to partisanship ? > Place the stress in this sentence on the word "persuasive." For if we don't get > that right, nothing else really matters. If I had time, I'd start a half-hour weekly podcast that actually *explained* politics from a trans-partisan, radical centrist perspective. I am continually amazed and how useless / dull the mainstream media. Jon Stewart is arguably the only one making politics *interesting*, which is rather pathentic. :-P It should be possible for a single person to create something compelling enough to attract listeners to a serious "point of view", perhaps like Nate Silvers did at FiveThirtyEight (though he did it with data, not analysis). Alas, such a project (at least for me) will have to wait a few years until Rohan is in school full-time... -- Ernie P. > > _______________________________________________ Centroids mailing list: [email protected] http://radicalcentrism.com/mailman/listinfo/centroids_radicalcentrism.com Archives at http://radicalcentrism.org/pipermail/centroids_radicalcentrism.com/
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