The responses to Jay Rosen's piece on my glocal journalism tells me two things. First, journalists like the idea of using newspapers and TV news to reveal the connections between local and global life.
Second, they hate the world "glocal." To some it just sounds dorky. Others find it guilty of "denying that some realities are experienced separately" and "making unitary narratives in the same way that globalization as a process does."
Oy! This I would surely not like to do, even inadvertently.
I tried half-heartedly, at first, to justify the word. It sounds as clunky to my ear as to others. But at the same time, I liked the linguistic collapse it achieved. I told myself I'd accept the aesthetic inelegance, in return for linguistic creativity.
Marketing? Sure. But for a good cause, I rationalized.
Well, the heck with it. If it turns people off, that's poor marketing. I'll still use the word as an adjective now and then, but for a title, it's Local Man.
As in "Local Man, Not Wishing to Conflate Narratives, Changes Blog Name."
At localman.typepad.com ...
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