A speech, for the speechwriters
Dear Corporate Speechwriter: I find myself thinking of coach Herb Brooks’ pregame speech to the 1980 U.S. hockey team, as portrayed in the movie, Miracle, by Kurt Russell. “This,” Brooks shouts …
Dear Corporate Speechwriter: I find myself thinking of coach Herb Brooks’ pregame speech to the 1980 U.S. hockey team, as portrayed in the movie, Miracle, by Kurt Russell. “This,” Brooks shouts …
There’s an unwritten tradition that the previous president doesn’t criticize the sitting president. There’s an unnecessary tradition that the previous president’s speechwriters don’t critique the sitting president’s scribes. Unnecessary, because it always …
A Tuesday ForbesWomen profile opened with some classic straw-man rhetoric, whether or not its subject knows that rhetorical term by its name. “There are a lot of speechwriters out there, and they will …
As some of us allow ourselves to imagine a time in the comprehensible future when we don’t feel like we’re hurtling through history backward, forward and sideways in a tumbling …
From a 2015 post on my personal blog, Writing Boots. —DM My pals were meeting me at the corner tavern in 15 minutes, when my wife came to me needing …
Four years ago this week, I stood in a security line for an hour waiting to get out of the Quicken Loans Arena, after watching Donald Trump’s speech in acceptance …
When you run a professional association, you like to believe you’re doing good in the world. And that the industry you represent contributes to the health of humanity. And that …
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