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An Online Publication of the American Communication Association Founded: October 1996 Co-editor: Tyrone
L. Adams, University
of Louisiana, Lafayette Book Review Co-editors: Ted
Coopman, Rogue
Communication Consutants Volume Two, Issue
Two (2.2) President William Jefferson
Clinton: |
Lindsley
Smith
Law
Clerk to the Honorable John E. Jennings,
Arkansas
Court of Appeals
The Undergraduate Legal Communication Course
Brenda
Cooper
Utah State
University
Hegemony
and Hollywood:
A
Critique of Cinematic Distortions of Women and Color and Their Stories
This special section contains opinion essays on
one of the most publicized apologies of this century -- President Clinton's
apology to the nation for his involvement "with that woman . . . Miss Lewinsky."
According to Nielsen Media Research, more than 67.6 million viewers
watched the President's original four-minute speech of apology on 8.17.1998.
Americans have heard political scientists and journalists speak ad nauseam
on the significance of President Clinton's apologia, so we thought it time
for rhetorical critics (and one linguist) to speak out.
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Click here to view C-SPAN's copy of the entire apology via RealPlayer -- to download RealPlayer G2, click here |
We hope the value of this section will be high, especially given the potential
for scholarly and student writing
on this subject.
William
L. Benoit
University
of Missouri
Bill Clinton in the Starr Chamber
Lewis
Glinert
Dartmouth
College
Bruce
E. Gronbeck
University
of Iowa
Underestimating
Generic Expectations:
Clinton's
Apologies of August 17, 1998
J. Michael
Hogan
Pennsylvania
State University
Public
Opinion and Journalistic Voyeurism:
The
Lesson of the Clinton Apology
The
Private vs. the Public:
A Critical Assessment
