Argues that a deleterious effect of increased use of online databases in academic debate is the change in the nature of information available to debaters and corresponding changes in ideological assumptions in argumentation. Examines the link between debate training and argumentative proficiency in a democracy. Foresees the likely consequences of…

Replies to another article in this issue by Robert Tucker. Argues that Tucker's view of how debaters research is limited. Suggests that his argument relies on a skewed view of the nature of electronic resources. States that Tucker's argument is grounded in a misperception of the nature of the free marketplace of ideas and its role within a…

Responds to a reply to this author's article in this issue. Identifies the four significant points of difference in the two arguments and examines each point. Reiterates the author's initial arguments. (PA)

Explores the question of whether time spent on the Internet and other online services will come at the expense of traditional media. Shows that during the start-up period for Internet use, the use of traditional media remained the same. (TB)

Reports on a survey of 78 newspaper editors. Includes information about the types of readership research that newspapers conduct, the extent to which such research has influenced editorial decisions, and the characteristics of newspaper organizations that conduct research. Suggests that while most newspapers conduct research, the type and quality…

Examines the ability of high school students to process and recall information contained in story texts, graphics, index boxes, and pull-out quotes. Finds that most efficient recall comes from information pull-out quotes and least efficient comes from information in graphics. (TB)

Reports on a case study of editorial ethics involving newspapers and the Michigan telecommunications bill. Finds that the press had a vested interest and that its coverage was biased against the telephone industry. (TB)

Argues that practices of civic journalism are a fit focus for perfecting the needed methods to build a tradition of media performance assessment. Maintains that academicians and practitioners should join together in this effort. (TB)

Describes in some detail the structure of metaphor and metonymy, reviewing three main structures of metaphor--supposition, extension, and apposition--and proposing a comprehensive definition of metaphor taking all three structures into account. Draws on Roman Jakobson when explaining Jacques Lacan's claim that condensation is metaphor and…

Refutes the theory that students automatically learn to think more openly via a decentered pedagogical transference relation, a relation "supposed" to put the teacher/master, student/slave hierarchy into question. Argues that neither learning nor thinking can be adequately explained by equating language to writing, or text to narrative. (TB)

Outlines a theory of rhetoric, sexuality, and embodiment that is both immoderately antifoundationalist and antirhetoricalist. Considers what in rhetoric or discourse exceed language, namely, desire, whether that be heterosexual or homosexual. Attempts to eliminate the stigma associated with the "gay Lacanian." (TB)

Identifies a dozen major improvements to the mass media, relative either to the selection of information or to the presentation of it. Looks to the year 2045 when, without state intervention, the media may have developed a control system, based perhaps in universities, to monitor, evaluate, and advise the media. (TB)

Reports on an exploratory study that seeks to build theoretical understanding of how public relations practitioner involvement in one type of strategic organizational decision making--strategic issue diagnosis--is related to shared values with top management, diagnosis accuracy, strategy pursued, and the power of the public relations function. (TB)

Studies how public relation efforts affected labor dispute negotiations during the 1946 steel strike. Finds that neither national nor local public relations campaigns had any impact on the resolution of the strike. Suggests that national campaigns, in fact, may have confused the community by offering messages that did not correspond to the local…

Examines role behaviors of Thai public relations practitioners to determine if their perception of their roles was similar to their American counterparts. Finds that four factors and one isolate emerged from the factor analysis: manager, communication liaison, media relation specialist, graphic technician, and editor. Suggests that G. M. Broom's…