The Bloggerstant Reformation
Hewitt, Hugh
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...Zarefsky is the Owen L. Coon Professor of Argumentation and Debate and Professor of Communication Studies at Northwestern University, where he has taught for over 30 years...
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...Hugh contributes usefully to the meta-narrative, hitting all the familiar markers: how the bloggers caught on to Jayson Blair's fabrications at the New York Times and then brought down Executive Editor Howell Raines...
...What Makes a Sound Argument...
...He loves the idea that experts—scholars, lawyers like him, people with lots of academic years behind them—are blogging and setting the media straight...
...Third, there are six kinds of evidence that can be advanced to prove an argument that something is true—and the same tests for truth can be applied to these types of evidence every time...
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...What Engberg did not catch was how reports of the Kerry lead—scary if you were a right-wing blogger, elation if you were a lefty—corrected themselves instantaneously around the Blogosphere, indeed well before most polling places closed...
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...Anyone with a keyboard and an Internet connection can participate, and that's got the high priests, some of whom might have come up through the Columbia or Medill Seminaries, on an inquisitorial warpath...
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...Much of this development involves, not so much the affairs of God, man, and state that pre-occupy Hugh Hewitt, but personal journaling of the therapeutic and schoolgirl-diarist sort—and, yes, sexual networking...
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...O ElFourth, argumentation is not mere quarreling: it is the study of human communication that seeks to persuade through reasoned judgment, and it is a deeply social and cooperative practice...
...But if one looks at Grant's military correspondence—crisp, clear, and fluidly composed, written without pause and only rarely with correction—and if one reads his memoirs, routinely ranked as the best of presidential autobiographies and one of the best of military commentaries, the comparison does not seem so bad at all...
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...Grant felt similarly about the American Indian, whom he wanted integrated into American society—while his old colleagues Generals William Sherman and Phil Sheridan thought "Native Americans" should be sped to their happy hunting ground in the sky...
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...Unfortunately for their plans, the rebels were always thinking of something else...
...I have made the comparison several times myself, in speeches and elsewhere, but I simply can't remember if I did so after my last conversation with Hugh...
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...As a politician, to compare Grant to his British contemporaries Disraeli and Gladstone is to feel a tremor of the truth of Henry Adams' dismissal of the mud-spattered general turned president...
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...Admittedly, Grant was no soaring Victorian poly-math, but he never claimed to be, and to his credit, he never took his eyes off what he thought truly mattered...
...My old friend, Times columnist David Brooks (I'm blessed to know them both), tells me Raines's departure had little to do with Blogospheric pressure...
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...First, the tools of formal logic, while essential and even definitive for mathematics and programming computers, are inadequate to decide most controversial issues...
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...Second, arguments fall into a handful of distinctive categories—and the same issues are at stake each time one of these distinctive patterns occurs...
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...Thus begins the meta-narrative, to use the meta-journalists' lingo, that brings us to the Bloggerstant Reformation...
Vol. 38 • February 2005 • No. 1
