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Mass media and language

Broken English

by Thomas Frank,

The radio was tuned to NPR, the subject was austerity, and the great observers of our political moment were speaking with their customary authority. The conversation wandered to and fro,…

Audible silence

by Lewis H. Lapham,

The newspeak generation

by Reed Whittemore,