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Thursday, November 3, 2011

55. Conflate


From: NY Times, “Cain Accuser Got a Year’s Salary in Severance Pay,” by Jim Rutenberg, Jeff Zeleny and Mike McIntire, 11/1/11:

“Mr. Cain has at times seemed to conflate the situations with the two women. Appearing to speak about the terms of the formal settlement with Mr. Bennett’s client on Monday, he said she had received perhaps three months of severance — this after at first saying he knew of no severance.”

Ponder/write/discuss how the media’s reporting of the story of Cain’s past behavior may/may not influence public opinion (US politics – Cain is a candidate for the Republican nomination for US president).  What do you think determines which media form has the strongest influence on public opinion.

Conflate: combine (two or more ideas, texts) into one
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