Not exact matches
According
to this corporate
narrative, the Gerber Products Company grew not
out of a corporate - driven search
to develop a new product and generate a consuming
public, but
out of the genuine need and inventiveness of a mother trying
to prepare mashed peas for her seven - month - old child.
«That profile is a great political opportunity for me
to get our
narrative in gear and project it
out to the
public,» he said.
Too earnest
to ironically indulge in the
narrative's familiar pulpy beats and too uncertain about the strength of this material
to play it straight, Fleischer aims for a muddled middle, jazzing up Beall's faux - hardboiled dialogue with slow - motion shootouts and shaky HD - cam pursuits that only remind us of how much better
Public Enemies turned
out.
The son of undocumented Mexican immigrants who have since become U.S. citizens, Gomez experienced firsthand the ways in which certain occupations are reduced
to invisibility and, though essential, are written
out of the primary
narrative of a family, building, or
public space.
So this is not really the «debate» that the contrarians would like
to make it
out to be, and most scientists, as well as people who have accepted that climate science points
to the need for stronger action, have no more interest in letting the Heartland and NIPCC folks hijack the
public discourse and getting the media
to frame the
narrative in their terms.
I was pointing
out that this is increasingly the challenge
to the climate consensus that is voiced in
public, per Carlson in the video, and that this approach will increasingly help expose the gap between the
narrative of certain calamity (whatever its touted threshold du jour, which has changed over the years and may continue
to do so) and the reality of what is knowable even in the way that the IPCC defines this knowability (let alone what is knowable when taking approaches
to uncertainty such as that of our host here).
I'm pointing
out that the kind of question that Carlson raises is increasingly emerging as a
public challenge
to the orthodox
narrative of calamity.
So if it turns
out that AGW theory is overblown, you and a smallish bunch of people who stuck their necks
out will be vindicated, and the general
public will be wondering how they missed what was so obvious according
to the
narrative that gets constructed by the historians and the media.
As we try
to figure
out how
to reverse this defeat, films like Flow will help inform
public consciousness of the need
to do so.But as is the case after seeing many (perhaps too many, of late) environmental documentaries, I also wished that the film had had fewer talking heads (especially white male radically professorial ones — and I say that as a white male radical former professor), less of an impulse
to be comprehensive (when you try for the universal all the time, you often lose the specific), and more of a
narrative focus on particular responses (successful or not)
to particular challenges.