--- Peter Lavelle <untimely_thoughts at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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!
> >
> >
> >
> >
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