http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2009/01/30/%e2%80%98there-is-no-way-to-measure-the-destructive-effect-of-sports-broadcasting-on-ordinary-american-english%e2%80%99-quote-of-the-day-edwin-newman/ Janice Harayda Reviews Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry for Adults and Children Mon, 10 Jun 2013 02:28:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2009/01/30/%e2%80%98there-is-no-way-to-measure-the-destructive-effect-of-sports-broadcasting-on-ordinary-american-english%e2%80%99-quote-of-the-day-edwin-newman/#comment-7192 Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:16:35 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=5594#comment-7192 The hijacking of the language points to a larger problem because the barren language tends to reflect an absence of thought. That’s my problem with cliches in any field, not just sports — the cliched words are just stand-ins for cliched thinking. We’re losing our ability to think here.

]]> http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2009/01/30/%e2%80%98there-is-no-way-to-measure-the-destructive-effect-of-sports-broadcasting-on-ordinary-american-english%e2%80%99-quote-of-the-day-edwin-newman/#comment-7191 Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:39:50 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=5594#comment-7191 I have often thought that if our government in Australia spent the $$$ we spend on sport on education, health, research, the environment & the arts instead, we’d all be better off. I do not understand how we have allowed this form of mass entertainment to hijack our time, attention and funding away from more important things, and now it seems it attacks our very language as well.

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