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Freedom & Secrecy: Trading Liberty For Security?, Andrus Center For Public Policy
Freedom & Secrecy: Trading Liberty For Security?, Andrus Center For Public Policy
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In the post-September 11th world, are Americans trading their liberty for their security? How does an open society reconcile the inevitable clash that occurs when our notions of freedom come into conflict with a government’s desire for secrecy? Those issues were the focus of a major conference on October 2, 2003 in Boise, sponsored jointly by the Andrus Center for Public Policy, the Frank Church Institute, and the Idaho Statesman. The day-long conference featured presentations from nationally-syndicated columnist David Broder, former Vice President Walter F. Mondale, and former U.S. Senator Slade Gorton. Also participating was a group of current and …
Freedom & Secrecy: Trading Liberty For Security, Andrus Center For Public Policy
Freedom & Secrecy: Trading Liberty For Security, Andrus Center For Public Policy
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Lane Environmental Lecture, Cecil D. Andrus
Lane Environmental Lecture, Cecil D. Andrus
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Building Credibility: Using Hypothetical Discussion To Examine Media Coverage, Rocky Barker
Building Credibility: Using Hypothetical Discussion To Examine Media Coverage, Rocky Barker
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Religion And Topoi In The News: An Analysis Of The “Unsecular Media” Hypothesis, Rick Clifton Moore
Religion And Topoi In The News: An Analysis Of The “Unsecular Media” Hypothesis, Rick Clifton Moore
Communication Faculty Publications and Presentations
Mark Silk has proposed in Unsecular Media that journalists operate with a limited series of topoi and that these are borrowed from religion. Silk thus claims when journalists write about religion, they do so in a way that ultimately supports religious values. In this study, I apply topic analysis to recent news coverage of Jesse Jackson’s marital infidelity to determine the extent to which the topos of hypocrisy was employed and whether this employment supported or challenged a religious (as opposed to secular) worldview.