In this Book
- Intertextuality and the 24-Hour News Cycle: A Day in the Rhetorical Life of Colin Powell's U.N. Address
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: Michigan State University Press
- Series: Rhetoric & Public Affairs
summary
On a cold Wednesday morning in February 2003 Colin Powell argued before the United Nations Security Council that Iraq harbored weapons of mass destruction. Before the speech, nearly 90 percent of Americans reported that Powell’s speech would help them determine their view about invading Iraq. In the days after the speech, a strong majority of Americans reported that they found Powell’s evidence convincing enough to justify war. But most American adults did not watch Powell’s speech. Instead, they learned about it from journalists—and to a large extent formed their opinions about war with Iraq based on news coverage of his address. In Intertextuality and the 24-Hour News Cycle John Oddo investigates the “rhetorical life” of Colin Powell’s address as it was extended across several media reports. Focusing on one day of pre- and postspeech news coverage, Oddo examines how journalists influenced Powell’s presentation— precontextualizing and recontextualizing his speech, and prepositioning and repositioning audiences to respond to it. The book surveys a variety of news media (television, newspaper, and Internet) and systematically integrates several methodological approaches (critical, rhetorical, discourse-analytic, and multimodal). This revealing text shows the decisive role that journalists played in shaping American attitudes about Powell, his presentation, and the desirability of war in Iraq.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyrigth Page
- pp. i-iv
- List of Tables
- pp. vii-viii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Notational Scheme
- pp. xi-xii
- Appendix A. Data Corpus
- pp. 199-200
- Appendix B. Synoptic Views of Discourse
- pp. 201-216
- Appendix E. Attitudes about Powell and Iraq
- pp. 247-250
- Appendix I. A Four- Phased Analytic Approach
- pp. 271-278
- Bibliography
- pp. 311-346
Additional Information
ISBN
9781609174262
Related ISBN(s)
9781611861402
MARC Record
OCLC
889314824
Pages
381
Launched on MUSE
2014-08-27
Language
English
Open Access
No