Friday, September 12, 2008

... will say in a speech...

More and more often, I find myself reading news stories about what some politician, businessman, police chief, or other public figure will say in a speech to be given later in the day, the next day, or even in the next week in extreme cases.

This raises the question: if they've already published the speech, and made it available to the media, why not just put it up on the internet for everyone to see, and not bother saying it at all?

After all, most of the ideas put forward in these speeches are really bad ones, and they're far easier to pick apart when delivered in written rather than verbal form, which means that by the time you actually get around to delivering the speech, it has already been picked apart, ridiculed, and discarded anyway, so why bother?

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