Each day this new blog, Today’s Rock Stars, writes up the newspapers that use the rock star metaphor in their articles. Yesterday it was some Canadian and Stephen Hawking. “It’s a rare day with neither sports rock stars nor political rock stars” wrote the narrator, Matt Gill.
This is a goofy way to use newspaper content — it’s goofy, and it still means something. “Metaphor watch” is a theme that has come up before… I’m sure it’s possible to chart the rise and fall of the “perfect storm” metaphor in news articles…
Okay, and here’s the point: There’s gotta be more, worthwhile ideas out there like this. It’s “meta” stuff that papers can do with their content that (hopefully) give more context to their content.
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This makes me wonder if there’s some way to track the changing connotation of rock stars, and if that site is the way to do it. Being called a rock star in the days of Elvis is maybe different than being called a rock star in the days of Justin Timberlake. Historical context, say what?