Word: invention
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Soon, the characters the media created invent their own media. The independent counsel writes a "narrative" that is sold as a novel in airport book-stores, and is compared by literary scholars to Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina. Congress releases a film in which the main character--the president--hems and haws and gets caught up in the definition of what...
Back in the heyday of "yellow journalism," the likes of Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst (upon whom "Citizen Kane" was based) were not afraid to embellish or even invent news when things were slow. They learned that the truth often got in the way of the stuff that sells newspapers. People preferred to read about fabricated news rather than pedestrian real-life stories...
Drawing from his personal experience, Gates told the audience, "I don't think we should say, 'Express Yourself' as Madonna did. I think we should say, 'Invent yourself...
WASHINGTON: If Ken Starr didn't exist, Bill Clinton might have to invent him. Not only has the President's approval rating soared since the independent counsel began investigating the Lewinsky affair, the President and first lady have also raked in $2 million in the last six months for their legal defense fund, according to White House officials. Compare that with the $1.3 million the Clintons spent three-and-a-half years scraping together for Whitewater costs. What's their secret? Relaxed limits on contributions -- not to mention direct mailing that invokes Starr's name. "You can either...
...soon-to-be-empty malls as schools or prisons--we apparently need both pretty badly! It is truly a shame that we did not invent the Internet before shopping malls. THOMAS F. SHERER Vienna, Ohio...