Language

Medium

Register

Discourse

field

mode

tenor

FROZEN

FORMAL

CONSULTATIVE

CASUAL

INTIMATE

Style

who, says what, how, to whom, with what effect

remediation

signifier (sr)

signified (sd)

sign

anchorage

relay

Newsworthiness determined by:

manufactured consent

personalization bias

dramatization bias

fragmentation/isolation bias

authority-disorder bias

selection/omission/censorship bias

Attacking the Person
(ad hominem)

Circular Reasoning
("begging the question")

False Cause and Effect
(post hoc ergo procter hoc)

Hasty Generalizations
(oversimplification)

Appeal to Ignorance
(as ignatorium)

Half-Truth
(equivocation)