Intertextuality and the 24-hour news cycle : a day in the rhetorical life of Colin Powell's U.N. address / John Oddo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oddo, John, 1981-

Series:

Rhetoric and public affairs series

Rhetoric and Public Affairs Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Journalism--United States--21st century.

Journalism.

Intertextuality--Congresses.

Intertextuality.

United States.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xii, 369 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

East Lansing, Michigan : Michigan State Univ Press, 2014.

Summary:

"On a cold Wednesday morning in February 2003 Colin Powell argued before the United Nations Security Council that Iraq harbored weapons of mass destruction. Before the speech, nearly 90 percent of Americans reported that Powell's speech would help them determine their view about invading Iraq. In the days after the speech, a strong majority of Americans reported that they found Powell's evidence convincing enough to justify war. But most American adults did not watch Powell's speech. Instead, they learned about it from journalists, and to a large extent formed their opinions about war with Iraq based on news coverage of his address. In Intertextuality and the 24-Hour News Cycle John Oddo investigates the "rhetorical life" of Colin Powell's address as it was extended across several media reports. Focusing on one day of pre- and postspeech news coverage, Oddo examines how journalists influenced Powell's presentation, precontextualizing and recontextualizing his speech, and prepositioning and repositioning audiences to respond to it. The book surveys a variety of news media (television, newspaper, and Internet) and systematically integrates several methodological approaches (critical, rhetorical, discourse-analytic, and multimodal). This revealing text shows the decisive role that journalists played in shaping American attitudes about Powell, his presentation, and the desirability of war in Iraq." -- Publisher

Contents:

Chapter 1 The Campaign for War in Iraq: Contextualizing Powell's Speech in Political and Media Discourse 23

Chapter 2 The Chief Prosecutor and the Iraqi Regime: Intertextual Ethos and Transitive Chains of Authority 45

Chapter 3 Undercutting Saddam's Denials: Precontextualization and Audience Alignment 77

Chapter 4 America's Rest Intelligence: Recontextualization and Rhetorical Transformation 129

Chapter 5 Political Discourse, the Press, and the Public Good 175.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-345) and index.

ISBN:

1611861403

9781611861402

OCLC:

878111679