Political Rhetoric and Phraseology
The rule of thumb is to use around 6 keywords or phrases per minute to have your story read or sound like an interesting ride.
Dates and times:
- On a gray December morning in 1981 (year)
- Within hours
- Every night at seven-thirty
- In the winter of 1989
- Sixteen years ago
People:
- Anna Semborska (interesting name)
- Semborska (last name)
- Who was seventeen (age)
Locations:
- In Warsaw (interesting location name)
- In a little town called Swidnik, near the Czech border
- In the center of town
Phrases:
- Pushed the boundaries
- Of what people in Poland could say
- Under Communist rule
- Although it had been
- With the rise of the labor union
- One story involved the dogwalkers
- State-run television
- Silent act of protest and solidarity
- We refuse to watch
- We reject your version of truth
- The rise of public opinion
- At best, they could try
- Leaders of the movement
- Owed a good deal to the coming
- And the effect it had on
- Walesa asked rhetorically
- In retrospect,
- Looking at the evolution of
- We may wonder if
- Euphoria of the moment
- Less a reflection of
- Naivete
- Burst of optimism
- Coming from a part of the world
- Its power to do good
- In the emerging democracies
- A group of journalists gathered in Prague
- That had subverted it with
- That undermined freedom
- Freedom of thought
- Implicit
- Much of the discourse
- Lack of reflection about
- Dominate the twentieth century
- License
- When we began our journey to
- Were likely to provide
- When pressed to account for
- Newsrooms were insulated from
- Working in the public interest
- These simplistic questions
- Were more harmful
- Skepticism
- Invited skepticism from the public
- Ability to comment openly
- Impassioned
- Virtuous
- By their silence, newspeople
- Smug, moralistic idealists
- Journalists failed to think
- Imagine their motives were so virtuous
- Open and competitive marketplace
- The simplistic refrain
- Is exposed
- Anyone with a computer can claim to be
- The norms of profession
- Are being pulled and redefined
- Sometimes abandoned altogether
- Perhaps, some suggest
- Now anything can be seen as journalism
- On closer examination
- The techniques they employ
- But by something more basic
- For all that has changed about journalism
- If not always well served
- Since the notion of a
- There exists a clear theory
- News’s function encompasses several elements
- Knowledge rooted in reality
- Serve as a watchdog
- Push people beyond complacency
- Offer a voice to the forgotten
- One of the most innovative thinkers about
- At its best, as we will also show
- Today, ironically,
- The long standing theory
- The purposes of journalism are being challenged
- At odds with
Reference:
Kovach, Bill, and Tom Rosenstiel. The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect. Three Rivers Press, 2014.
Business Topics
- Companies from all over the world
- A company’s org chart and issues concerning any level of the hierarchy
- Economy, producers, consumers
- CEOs and their personal lives
- Roles of people
- Anything to do with financials: money, revenues, salaries, sales, severance, etc
- Different industries
- Domain knowledge of an industry and/or a company
- The rise of companies
- The fall of companies
- Key points/milestones that companies or people surpass
- IPOs, public vs private companies
- Business books
- Quarters, years, decades
- Peoples tweets
- Changing cast of characters
- Linking companies and people with a common thread
- The fall of powerful people
- Startups
- Future innovations
- Investing
- Topics from:
Entertainment Topics
- People, circles of people, friendships, personal stories
- Projects: people plug into the system at different places, in different mediums, for different projects
- The amount of money people and projects earn
- Dating relationships
- Weight gain and loss. Arm the public with tools for health, diet, and exercise.
- Casts
- Reactions: Twitter, IG
- Fashion
- Parties
- Reveals
- Award shows
- Project domain knowledge: music, video production, directing, acting, film school, etc.
- Popularity of music and movies, sales, records sold, streaming numbers
- Cars they’re driving, their homes
- Footage of them in public
- The rise of stars
- Usually more physically active people than in other industries
- Arrests
- People must be recognized
- The gatekeeper metaphor
- Gossip
- Vetted to be made public
- Exclusive access
- Celebrity entrepreneurs
- Meetings with politicians
- Shrinking
- Monopoly over mediating information
- Hollywood walk of fame, star
- Topics from:
Sports Topics
- Different conclusions for different atheletes
- Trades
- Meditation, mind prep, visualization
- Game statistics: NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL
- Physical capabilities
- Physique
- Spouses
- Small acting and music roles
- Social media: Twitter, IG
- Connections with people from other domains
- Athletes' business interests
- Player improvement and decline
- Training
- Team organizations
- Endorsement deals and sponserships
- Clothes and shoes
- Teams: Wikipedia, ESPN
- Key points or milestones that people and teams surpass
- Hall of fame
- Apparel
- Sport/game strategy
- Announcers, play by play and game analyst
- Game technology
- Stable strong teams
- Linsanity
- Arrests
- Dating relationships
- Gatekeepers
- Fans
- Game audience
- Top players each year, of all time
- Playoffs
- Championships
- Scandals
- Maintain order of popularity of sports
- Drafts: NBA, NFL, NHL
- Sports rules and regulations. Positions and their functions.
- Head coaches
- Charity programs
- Formal events
- How they dress before and after sporting events, fashion
- Talk with fans
- Salaries
- Sense maker
- Turn information into knowledge
- Levels of college, minor leagues, majors
- Tournaments
- Seasons
- Preseasion
- Olympics
- MVPs
- Jersey numbers
- Team locations
- Sporting venues
- Sports gear
- Topics from:
Technology/Science/Health Topics
New happenings and domain knowledge
Technology
- Topics from trending tech news on TheNewsHOOK
- Topics from latest tech news on YouTube
Science
- Topics from trending science news on TheNewsHOOK
- Topics from latest science news on YouTube
Health
- Topics from trending tech news on TheNewsHOOK
- Topics from latest health news on YouTube