Your Baloney Detection Kit Sucks. I still remember the thrill of first encountering a summary of Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit .
Reading through the list of logical fallacies, I could feel a change come over my being and my posture: my biceps bulged, my abs hardened into a carapace, and my gonads turned to solid granite. I had discovered the secret weapons cache of the elite commandoes of reason, and now I felt invincible. Armed with Sagan's checklist, I was sure I could survive any argument undefeated.
Persuasive Tech. How to Analyze an Advertisement. AdViews: A Digital Archive of Vintage Television Commercials. McDonald's Big Mac TV Commercial, 'Mouth Soiree' Welcome to wffnproof.com. Robert Allen & Loren Greene: The Propaganda Game [Excerpts] Propaganda critic: index of site dedicated to propaganda analysis. Propaganda Resources on the Web. Detecting Bull: Table of Contents. Table of Contents A Confession of Bias In this book I argue that information-providers should be transparent so you'll know when to power up your skepticism shields.
Nelson Mandela once said "where you stand depends on where you sit. " Without being aware of it, we absorb biases from where we are situated in society. Our race, gender, generation, geography, class and nationality each have a great deal to do with how we perceive the world. With no say in the matter, I was born melanin-challenged to Irish-American parents, a drop in the libidinal tidal wave that followed World War II. Chapter 1 Critical Thinking About News and Information. USHMM Propaganda. Explore the Nazis' sophisticated propaganda campaigns and their legacy.
Features. War and Political Propaganda. Downy. I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence by Amy Sedaris. "Sedaris's sidesplitting guide to throwing parties hopes to return readers to the times when the word entertainment was "charmingly old-fashioned, like courtship or back alley abortions.
" While her tongue is firmly in cheek, novice party-planners will actually find some helpful hints along the way as Sedaris offers instructions and real recipes. Her tips run the gamut from how to properly freeze meatballs (freeze them on a cookie sheet before putting them into a freezer bag so they won't stick together) and deal with the inebriated ("Better to cut them off rather than pretend it's not happening and then allow them to stay over and wet your bed").
At the Corner of Happy and Healthy. John Corbett (actor) Corbett was born in Wheeling, West Virginia on May 9, 1961, the son of John Joseph Corbett, Sr.
He lived with his mother in an apartment block near the Ohio River in West Virginia. His mother was a waitress who worked in his uncle's music club.[2] Corbett attended Wheeling Central Catholic High School where he graduated in 1979.[3] He started playing the guitar at age 7 and at 16, he had a job as a security guard at the Capitol Music Hall.[4] Following his graduation from high school, Corbett moved to California and worked in a steel factory for six years.[5] During his time as a boiler maker in the factory, Corbett spent a year training to become an L.A. County Deputy Sheriff but ultimately failed.[6] He stopped working at the factory when he got injured and went to Cerritos College in Norwalk, California. There, he took acting classes and studied hair dressing for a year.[7] Corbett said: "I went to hair school by day and studied theatre at night.
Persuasion Analysis. The Playboy Interview: Marshall McLuhan. A candid conversation with the high priest of popcult and metaphysician of media.From “The Playboy Interview: Marshall McLuhan”, Playboy Magazine, March 1969. © Playboy. List of Theories and Theorists—A First Look at Communication Theory. Share: The list below contains theories that are or have been covered in A First Look at Communication TheoryFull = a chapter in the 7th edition is dedicated to this theory.Brief = the theory is discussed in the 7th edition, but not assigned a full chapter.Archive = the theory was covered in a full chapter in previous editions.
A pdf from the last edition in which it appears is available.When a theory name is clickable, the link will take you to Theory Resouces for that theory or open the archived chapter. View/Sort by: Theories | Authors You can also view the 7th Edition Table of Contents to see supplementary material as well as theories. Theory Resources—A First Look at Communication Theory. This section pulls together all of the available resources for the First Look text.
Most come from the Instructors Manual, some from the text, and others have been created for the website. There are two "views" of the data:. Switch between them using the option above the colored tabs. In View by Type (this view), all tabs are active. In View by Theory, some tabs may be dimmed, indicating the resource is not available for the selected theory. In this view, all available content for the selected edition is shown, sorted by chapter. Conversation Videos includes all fifteen videos that Em conducted with theory authors, including those no longer given full chapter treatment. Psychology: Persuasion. 7 Things Really Persuasive People Do. While many people don't like to sell, most find themselves having to persuade someone at some point.
Persuasion is not just for salespeople and their prospects. You may try to persuade an employee to perform better, or perhaps you want to persuade your boss to take on your brilliant idea. Rhetoric and media. Distrotions in Media unit. Bill Clinton’s over-the-top ‘fact’ on mass shootings. “Half of all mass killings in the United States have occurred since the assault weapons ban expired in 2005, half of all of them in the history of the country.” — Former president Bill Clinton, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Jan. 9, 2013 A colleague spotted this eye-popping statistic by the former president and wondered if it was correct.
President Clinton signed the assault weapons ban into law in 1994, but it expired after 10 years and was not renewed. Even supporters have said it was riddled with loopholes, limiting its effectiveness.