“ Fox News famously relies on the trope that “some people say …” in order to insert unsourced (i.e., Fox’s own) opinions into a news story. “Serious people say” and “no one seriously thinks” are the flip side of this technique. Corporate-owned newspapers and broadcast media outlets use “some people say” in order to define the range of acceptable discourse and “no one seriously thinks” to smear opinions that are widespread among the public at large as marginal, infantile and perhaps even insane.
August 5, 2011
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