Thursday, June 4, 2020

being hectored

With less and less actual news to report, news anchors and reporters, among others, have resorted to hectoring their listening constituency with virtue and criticism. "Democracy," "transparency," "immorality," "shame," "patriotism," "flag," "we all..." "together," "heroes..." the list goes on and on. Republicans are not heard from at all.

"Hectoring" means to "talk to (someone) in a bullying way." It's tiring. It's too much like Donald Trump himself. Oh, ain't it awful?!

"Hectoring" -- a word I have seldom if ever had occasion to use. I don't like being hectored by either the virtuous or the malign. And I really don't like to see news personnel devolve into a judgment of what they claim to be reporting. I guess news people are about like anyone else -- seeing the potential to lose their jobs, clambering in what may be their death throes to be heard and thought useful or even indispensable.

Treacly, high-school drivel.
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  1. Andy ShizenJune 5, 2020 at 6:35 PM

    Be more specific. Who are the newscasters that you watch are hectoring? May be I’d agree. May be not.

    Certain rhetoric & actions being taken may legitimately be construed as threatening to Democracy.

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