Rapid Redundancy
I find myself a odds with most conventional news outlets, partly because it is nearly impossible to get just news, rather it comes now prepackaged with a political twist. More than that, I get exhausted listening to the same information told twenty different ways none of which advance the plot. When faced with a choice about what to do with the precious few moments of down time I get during the day I will more often than not opt for anything other than news. This is exactly what gets addressed in “Journalism is burning or How Breaking News is Broken.”
Why have just one?
Agre suggests that in finding yourself you will find your voice. This a great sentiment but I think it leaves out the idea that we as people often have many faces and encounter many different situations that require us to have several different voices. The manner in which I speak at school is completely different from the way the I converse and interact socially. To that end I would suggest in addition to employing the tools he lays out it is important to recognize the rhetorical situation. By rhetorical situation I mean the objects, people, relations, events, and problems that you are encountering. Often enough these components will at least give the speaker a place to start. It furthermore eliminates the fear of obscurity and relevance because you have fuller understanding of what is going on.
