<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal">KB CONFERENCE Session on TRUMP Herb Simons<span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst">1.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">   
</span>What does discourse about Trump in the media
tell us about who “we” are? Who “they” are? i.e. our beliefs and values; <span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">2.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">   
</span>What roles are played by money and power: e.g.,
in the GOP on issues like climate control? <span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">3.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">   
</span>Assess U,S. news media re Trump, including SMS,
Cable, social media, radio. How did GOP achieve control? Was Edelman right on
media?: a passing parade of symbols? Ritual elements? Theater? Dramatic in
outline; empty of detail?<span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">4.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">   
</span>Investigative journalism: liberal? Unbalanced?
Immature? Praiseworthy<span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">5.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">   
</span>Is there a deep state in the U.S.? A media elite?
Intel CIA, academies??  FBI,infotainment?
Role of old money?Do we amuse ourselves to death? (Postman)<span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">6.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">   
</span>RE explaining Trump what’s Rhet theory/crit’s distinctive  contribution<span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:0.75in">a.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">   
</span>Mercieca on threats, appeals to pity? Ad hominem?
Ad populum? Trish Roberts on demagoguery. Trump as cult leader<span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:0.75in">b.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">   
</span>Appel & others on burlesque, truthful
hyperbole, ridicule, satire, role of political cartoons?<span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:0.75in">c.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">    
</span>Fishman on Trump’s boasts—e.g. I’m rich; I own
them; they owe me.<span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">7.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">   
</span>What can (or does) Burkean theory/criticism
contribute? E.g., Dramatism,Perspetive by incongruity, 4 master tropes?
Hitler’s “battle”, paradox, dialectic?<span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">8.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">   
</span>What’s admirable about Trump? What’s the secret
of his allure? His power to persuade? His distinctive contribution? His
successes with the white working class? With evangelicals? His tweets?<span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">9.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">   
</span>The investigations of Trump & CO’s alleged
wrongdoing?<span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">10.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">                     
</span>Impeachment debates; the obstruction of justice
issue? Trump & Putin& other Russians; Trump & Flint.<span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">11.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">                     
</span>Hacking issue<span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">12.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">                     
</span>Subverting the Presidential election<span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast">13.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">                     
</span>How will it all turn out?<span></span></p><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Herbert W. Simons, Ph.D.<br>Emeritus Professor of Communication<br>Dep't of  Strategic Communication, Weiss Hall 215<br>Temple University, Philadelphia 19122<br>Home phone: 215 844 5969<br><a href="http://astro.temple.edu/%7Ehsimons" target="_blank">http://astro.temple.edu/~hsimons</a><br>Academic Fellow, Center for Transformative Strategic Initiatives (CTSI)<br><br></div>
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