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self-centered, shamelessly boastful marketing messages that, for all their bravado, were about as interesting as old wallpaper. One day in a marking meeting I said, “I wonder if it might be useful to step back and think about the audiences we’re targeting to see if what we’re...
In this chapter, we are concerned with journalistic practices related to social media during crisis events. Based on a study of the BBC’s coverage of the Mumbai terror attacks in 2008 and the Norway attack in 2011, Bennett (2016) concludes that social media use is unlikely to lead to any...
Anderson, for years known as a sexpot, blonde bombshell femme fatale type who dates rockstars and keeps in the headlines, gives a stunning acting performance. I was floored. With her baby voice and kindness, the character of Shelly allows Anderson to give a refreshingly raw and dramatic perfo...
Give villains their comeuppance There are very bad people in Dahl’s stories (children and adults alike), but they also get what is coming to them. James’ evil aunts are crushed by the giant peach while the unlikeable children who visit Willy Wonka’s factory are punished for being greedy...
It informs the story, but the initial lack of moral comeuppance feels wrong to a modern reader, however, this is Bill’s story, told by Bill. Here lies another struggle, Bill’s style. Stout has written Bill in second person; Bill is a failed author with ideas, the book was written...
Soros has got his bought-and-paid-for White House stooge through whom he can operate. As a Jewish manipulator par excellence of markets, political scenarios, and economic conditions, (Soros boasts, “I’m having a very good crisis!” with regard to his windfall profits in America’s ...
As viewers, we love to laugh at narcissists and watch them fall. "Somehow, it feels good to see those with 'delusions of grandeur' get their comeuppance," says Colin Leach, a professor at the University of Connecticut who studies schadenfreude. "Maybe witnessing this sort of failure helps...
My shopping experiences paralleled the much-meme’d scene in Mean Girls where Rachel McAdams’s delightfully devious Regina George receives the ultimate retail comeuppance: After attempting—and failing—to squeeze herself into a pastel Spring Fling dress, Regina’s friend asks the saleswoman for ...