The author argues that in the field of modern American rhetorical criticism the concept of ideology and the practice of ideologiekritik have been repressed subjects, the focus of a persistent strategy of containment. ...

Critics point to several ethical concerns over USA Today's innovation in form and content of news. The paper: (1) emphasizes form over function, (2) takes brevity and shallowness to extremes, (3) contains too much trivia ...