[lbo-talk] horse's mouth

[Peter Lavelle]

Chris is right on this. Working at RIA Novosti, I can
and do attend press conferences (there are many
everyday). Most are actually kinda choatic. It is not
always clear what is really said. People are takling
among themselves, the sound system carrying voices
doesn't always work, lots of digression, lots of
interjections, etc. Every transcript prepared after
the fact rarely is a good representation of what
actually happened or what was said. 

--- Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:


> 
> It's always interesting to me to compare the actual
> text of the conference to what finally makes its way
> into print -- what is left out, in particular, and
> how
> quotes get contextually "framed." Boy, those giant
> Putin press conferences that last for two hours
> usually compressed into a paragraph.
> 
> 
> --- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> 
> > Yeah, and you'd think a retired English professor
> > with Marxist 
> > politics might be interested in the relations of
> > discourse and power 
> > - how the powerful present themselves, directly or
> > through their 
> > spokespersons, and how the media interpret what
> they
> > hear. But when 
> > your eyes are on bigger forces, I guess press
> > conferences are just 
> > distracting trivia.
> 
> 
> Nu, zayats, pogodi!
> 
> 
> 	
> 		
> __________________________________ 
> Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 
> http://mail.yahoo.com
> ___________________________________
>
http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk
> 

		
__________________________________ 
Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click.
http://farechase.yahoo.com