Satires

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“…(3.2.75-77). When Peter Goodrich noted that 'law and sauce' are 'rather directly related', 45 naturam), 46 by which Horace meant a sort of vinaigrette or salad dressing. Goodrich was referring more directly to Charles J.…”

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2023

The Making Sense of Politics, Media, and Law

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All news is fake news. By this I mean that all reports of current events are to some extent 'made up' by the time they are received by a mediated consumer distanced from the original source. Recall that 'fake', from the Latin facere (to make, to do), is a member of the family of making words that includes fact, factory, fashion, artificial, and face. Also in that family is the name of one of the main players in the realm of fake news: Facebook. One study found that in the final three months of the 2016 US presidential campaign, 'the topperforming fake election news stories on Facebook generated more engagement than the top stories from major news outlets'. 2 With all these facere words in mind, it is ironic that the standard test for whether news is 'fake' is to subject it to 'fact-checking'. Facts themselves are thingsartefactsthat we make through artificial processes of Creation and Production. Any 'fact' deserving of the name is something established by some process involving human skill and judgment. What matters is not whether news or facts are made upthey always arebut how they are made up and what relation there is between the thing at source and the thing as made up for public reception. Public reception also plays its part in the broadcast of fake news. Whereas an electronic radio receiver is passive, the human receiver of a message 'is an active producer of meanings'. 3 We therefore need to think in terms of what I call 'Receiver Responsibility', from the case of the journalist who receives the factual grain of a promising story, to the editor who publishes journalists' copy, to the online user who retweets a tweet.The UK's Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee concluded that the term 'fake news' is 'bandied around with no clear idea of what it means' and that it 'has taken on a variety of meanings, including a description of any

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Section: Swallowing Liesmentioning

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“…The Brexiteers' slogan, 'Take Back Control', delivered on its implied promise to make an impact, to make an impression, and to make a political noise by striking a blow. 46 If the 'Take' in the slogan was persuasive, it might have been down in large part to its percussive quality. By making a noiseand specifically the noise of making contactthe subliminal sound effect of 'Take Back Control' subtly appealed to the voters' making sense in the way that Trump's 'Make' appealed more overtly.…”

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“…45 Csikszentmihalyi made a related point when he observed that 'creative ideas vanish unless there is a receptive audience to record and implement them'. 46 The commonplace observation that critical scrutiny can 'make or break' a theatrical production actually means to say that a positive critical reception makes the show succeed, whereas a negative critical reception makes the show fail. All criticismpositive or negativeparticipates in making the thing in co-Productive mode.…”

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“…One can see a legal trial as a sort of drama in which protagonist and antagonist together generate something new from their opposing performances, hence Sir Edward Parry's suggestion that trials supply 'the raw material of drama'. 46 Or, taking the analogy of weaving, we can say that in the judicial loom of the Truth Factory the threads of witness testimonies and opposing counsels' arguments are woven against each otherlengthwise warp against crosswise weftand thereby turned by the judge into new facts and new legal material. Without constructive opposition there would be no constructive Creation.…”

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The Making Sense of Politics, Media, and Law

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2023

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From Trump's 'make America great again' to Johnson's 'build back better', performative politicians use The Making Sense to persuade their public audiences. Law 'makers' do it too: A courtroom trial is a 'truth factory' in which facts are not found but forged. The 'court of popular opinion' is another such factory, though its processes are often flawed and its products faulty. Where courts of law aim to make civil peace, 'trial by Twitter' makes civil strife. Even in 'mainstream' media, journalists make news for public consumption, so that all news is to an extent 'fake news'. In a world of making, how can we separate craft from craftiness? With insights from disciplines including law, politics, rhetoric, media studies, psychology, sociology, marketing, and performance studies, The Making Sense of Politics, Media, and Law offers a constructive way to approach controversies from transgender identity to cancel culture. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

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“…Both Return plays end metatheatrically, with the students onstage acknowledging the relevance of the plight of the students depicted to the students in the audience. Echoing the plays of Plautus and Terence, that typically end with actors calling for a round of applause ('Plaudite'), 56 The First Part has all the characters onstage agreeing that the play's bitter conclusion reflects contempt for learning in the wider world, and asking all the discontented scholars watching to 'giue vs a Plaudite' (5.3.1571). The Second Part similarly ends with an appeal to the 'refined sprights' in the audience, who can sympathize with 'poore schollers miseries', to 'giue vs a Plaudite' (5.4.2213-23).…”

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Underemployed Elizabethans: Gabriel Harvey and Thomas Nashe in the <i>Parnassus</i> Plays

Roberts

2018

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Nashe in the Parnassus PlaysThe Parnassus comedies appeared at Cambridge University between 1598 and 1601. Since they make multiple allusions to topical events, texts, and personalities, scholars have conventionally read them as personal satire, with characters representing luminaries such as the recent Cambridge graduate Thomas Nashe. This article, however, demonstrates that speeches given to several characters in the last two plays are previously untraced quotations from another Cambridge alumnus, Nashe's antagonist Gabriel Harvey. While the plays evoke Harvey and Nashe, they do this because the two men's post-Cambridge experiences illustrate the plays' theme: the struggles of the scholar in the late-Elizabethan world.

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