{"id":9180,"date":"2017-12-06T02:50:53","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T02:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yellowbird.gsucreate.org\/blog\/?p=133"},"modified":"2017-12-06T02:50:53","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T02:50:53","slug":"my-final-post-a-reading-response-on-sound-bites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/3080.pdarrington.net\/F17\/3080\/my-final-post-a-reading-response-on-sound-bites\/","title":{"rendered":"My final post: a reading response on sound bites"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before I play along with the sound bite portion of our beloved Pullman text, I am (of course!) going to read against the grain and question the entire purpose of the passage to which I have actively chosen to respond.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I AM…AGAINST THE GRAIN<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I chose to respond to the sound bite segment because, at least upon originally seeing the title of the section, I saw it as something that could spur a fun little activity that would differ from a typical read\/analysis of a passage. I said \u201cwell, look there, I can find some recent headlines and compare them (and their companion soundbites) to the full text and see whether it improved, changed, or worsened the message of the original text.\u201d <\/span>And I still will do that — b<\/span>ut once I kept reading on in our book, I started wondering just why exactly Pullman was talking about what he was talking about (\u201cproverbs, maxims, and aphorisms\u201d) and why he thought it a good idea to introduce the topic through discussion of sound bites. <\/span><\/p>\n

Maybe this is a lazy \u201cread against the grain\u201d, but if it didn\u2019t really immediately connect in my mind (which it didn\u2019t — I was questioning the usefulness of the discussion the entire time I was reading it), then perhaps Pullman should have pulled it together in a more enticing way that made the connection between sound bits and proverbs, et. al., more immediate and compelling. It is obvious to see that they are connected (each is a short little catch phrase) but the connection seems shallow. He does tie it together in the end with advice to rhetors, but it all seems to me to be a bit thrown-together without that much thought. A lot of advice that seems hard to enact — a lot of \u201cdo this, but not that, and just be perfect but I won\u2019t tell you how to be perfect.\u201d The section might have worked if it was longer but given the length of the book as it is, I don\u2019t think it was necessary at all. <\/span><\/p>\n

As for that fun little exercise — just to find our seemingly most sound-bite-able president (as it seems would be necessary for a former reality star), I googled \u201cheadlines trump says\u201d and found the headline <\/span>\u201cTrump says he feels \u2018very badly\u2019 for Flynn because lies to FBI have \u2018ruined his life\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here is the article’s elaboration on the headline: <\/span><\/p>\n

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Interestingly enough, Trump\u2019s sound bites pretty accurately reflect what he really said. Perhaps he is, indeed, very, very good at them. Very good. The best. Very.<\/p>\n

[I challenge you to do the same with articles going forward — what are their sound bites really accomplishing?]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before I play along with the sound bite portion of our beloved Pullman text, I am (of course!) going to read against the grain and question the entire purpose of the passage to which I have actively chosen to respond. I chose to respond to the sound bite segment because, at least upon originally seeing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1500,1522,1554,1553],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1500","category-midterm","category-reading-response","category-terms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/3080.pdarrington.net\/F17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/3080.pdarrington.net\/F17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/3080.pdarrington.net\/F17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3080.pdarrington.net\/F17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3080.pdarrington.net\/F17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9180"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/3080.pdarrington.net\/F17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9350,"href":"https:\/\/3080.pdarrington.net\/F17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9180\/revisions\/9350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/3080.pdarrington.net\/F17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3080.pdarrington.net\/F17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3080.pdarrington.net\/F17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}