How stories, true or not, drive politics

07 Oct 2010 21:19 #1 by CinnamonGirl
How stories, true or not, drive politics was created by CinnamonGirl
With less than two months to go until the November midterm election, a clear winner is beginning to emerge as the year's hottest political buzzword.

Who could forget — no matter how much we might like to — such hits from years past as "chad," "swift boat" and "lipstick" as it might be smeared on a pig or a pit bull?

On Tuesday, the Austin, Texas-based Global Language Monitor, a Web site that has been monitoring words on thousands of news, blogs and social network sites since 2003, announced the No. 1 political buzzword so far this year — beating out "climate change," "Obama Muslim," "lower taxes" and even "tea partiers" — is (drum roll, please) "the narrative."


Read more: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010 ... e-politics

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