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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The combination of the rise of Fox and the decline and decimation of the professional newsroom (now peopled by "freelance" contractors and encouraged by a "click-bait" mentality) has not helped public discourse. And Bonnie,
Galey, et al. are correct in identifying the range of the problem. The story was also fed by the perennial Ivory-Tower bashing and anti-intellectualism (intensifying these days) of the larger culture/media. Not to mention the voice given to direct and indirect
racism during the Obama tenure. (Fairly shocking to see from across the pond.)</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt;">This is giving me an idea for the fourth annual Professional Divides roundtable (some may recall the previous three, bringing regional journalists and anthropologists/linguists together to discuss social justice issues that
derive from language, reference, and practice in the media). I speak frequently enough with professors in US journalism departments about what they think the problems in their field are, and they don't like it. We ling-anth folks can come up with our own list.
There is a correlation. (Laura, interested in participating?)<br style="">
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Btw, I brought Jane's book to my undergrad Language and the Media class yesterday, as well as the Huffington Post story. The students were taken aback, underimpressed with Fox, and intrigued by the way that Americans are so
race-focused. It is different, although no less important, here in "multicultural London" (where sexism and Page Three models are getting more of an airing).</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt;">In any case, the Fox news piece makes the points in Jane's last chapter even more vivid. And Laura's point about training "journalist-anthropologists" I think is one way forward. Three of the journalists on the DC Professional
Divides panel were my former Georgetown interdisciplinary MA students in early (journalism) career. I like to think their exposure to sociocultural/ling-anth approaches made, and makes, a difference in their everyday decisions.<br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" color="#000000" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b>From:</b> Linganth <linganth-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf of Miller, Laura <millerlau@umsl.edu><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, January 30, 2015 5:58 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Judy Pine; Linguistic Anthropology Discussion Group (LINGANTH@listserv.linguistlist.org)<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This link and discussion is good to have. I'm teaching Jane's book at the University of Missouri-St Louis this semester. My campus is a few blocks from Ferguson, and many of our students are from Fergusson and other similar townships.<span style="">
</span>I'm certain most students will find her book useful. <span style=""> </span>But whenever I teach this book, there are Anglo students who really resist the message. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Other than doing our best in our classrooms, and writing our own blogs, news articles, and editorials, I don't think that "reaching out" to talk to journalists is normally very effective.
<span style=""> </span>Actually, I get irritated when people insist that the problem is that we use academic jargon and that's why non-academics aren't understanding our important viewpoints.
<span style=""> </span>I've spent decades trying to respond to news people in a sane manner when they ask about Asian eyelid surgery, geisha, and oversexed/undersexed Japanese.
<span style=""> </span>It often doesn't matter what you say or how you say it, the journalist already holds a firm viewpoint.<span style="">
</span>I wrote about this in a Savage Minds post, and I got a lot of heat for it. I also ranted about it in a recent journal issue I edited on Asia knowledge production.<span style="">
</span>Young people read good blogs as much as news, so more academics doing blogs may be a good strategy.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Another tricky bit is that the use of hyperbole to draw sharp political lines is not restricted to one ideological stance. I find myself increasingly
annoyed by headlines purporting to show me some public figure thoroughly beaten in discussion in a public forum, often with a video which only could be interpreted that way from a particular stance. I am not sure how, or even if, we can build a political
discourse that relies in reason rather than “gotcha!” tactics, but it does feel as if this is something we, as linguistic anthropologists, ought to be thinking about.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Meantime off I go to teach my students that, from a North Korean perspective, the US looks bat shit crazy and dangerously unpredictable. (the
other half of my job title is Asian ethnographer…) Maybe, hopefully, we are making a difference in our classrooms?</span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Bruce Mannheim<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Linganth] It turns out that Jane Hill is white(!)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Bonnie is absolutely correct here. I sent the link around to colleagues here who teach Jane's book and articles to use in classes. The change of prepositions from the book title to what is described in the clip is not a matter of sloppiness,
but is what Bonnie says that it is: "deployed entirely in service to creating sharp political lines and cementing their demographic."
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<p class="MsoNormal">Well put. It's the same dynamic as what happens every time any politician with an even remotely progressive message tries to explain it to the general public. The problem is, we as academics value accurate explanation. But the likes
of Fox or of shall we say certain political operatives are not remotely invested in any notion of accurate explanation -- for them reference is deployed entirely in service to creating sharp political lines and cementing their demographic. I do not know how
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 10:15 AM, galey modan <<a href="mailto:gmodan@gmail.com" target="_blank">gmodan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It's not just a question of reaching out 'beyond the academy', though -- this story was instigated by a college student -- one who didn't think there was anything strange about complaining about book titles of books she hadn't read for
a course she didn't take. And there is a larger, more general problem when a major news network thinks it reasonable to cook up a story about book titles in which the actual content of the books is deemed too irrelevant to address. Not sure what it would take
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 10:44 AM, Bonnie Urciuoli <<a href="mailto:burciuol@hamilton.edu" target="_blank">burciuol@hamilton.edu</a>> wrote:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 9:17 AM, PAUL B Garrett <<a href="mailto:pgarrett@temple.edu" target="_blank">pgarrett@temple.edu</a>> wrote:</p>
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