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Mark Thompson is CEO of the New York Times and has served as Chief Executive of Channel 4 and Director General of the BBC. In 2012 he was a visiting professor of rhetoric and the art of public persuasion at the University of Oxford.
"[A] superb book… Thompson’s own experience in the media is
brilliantly deployed throughout for insight… Thompson is a sharp
and entertaining analyst of political language itself."
*Guardian*
"He writes restlessly and compellingly… [An] intricately but also
urgently argued book."
*Financial Times*
"Thompson’s great virtue in this book is his steady and cool-headed
historicism… Thompson is lucid, well read, level-headed and
thoughtful. His range of reference is wide…He has a robust
familiarity with the history of scholarship on rhetoric, and
scatters his text with easeful and on-point references to Max
Weber, Martin Heidegger and Marshall McLuhan… The detail is
excellent. Enough Said’s particular glories, to this reader, are
Thompson’s frequent and sensitive close readings of particular
instances of public language."
*Prospect*
"[An] important study ... [Thompson] usually advances his case in
cool, nuanced and forensic prose, but he is a blistering
flame-thrower about the consequences of the digital
revolution."
*Observer*
"Thompson not only writes beautifully. He knows what he is talking
about… [An] enjoyable, thought-provoking mix of manifesto, history,
rhetorical analysis and autobiography."
*Literary Review*
"Given Thompson's standing as a past leader of one of the world's
dominant news organizations and the current head of another, what
he thinks about the interactions among politicians, citizens and
the press is by definition important."
*New York Times Book Review*
"An ambitious book… The book is at its most persuasive when it
grapples with the dilemmas of our time."
*New Statesman*
"Thompson uses his unique vantage point … to assess the
deterioration of political language and the current state of the
media landscape. Thompson’s writing packs a high percentage of
insights per page and his book manages to be an exemplary
investigation, a history, an autopsy, a practical manual, and a
cautionary tale all at once. "
*Publishers Weekly*
"For the analysis – and the insights from a distinguished and
experienced journalist and news executive – the book is well worth
a read."
*Enlightened Economist*
"Enough Said has real value ... We may thank Mark Thompson for the
story he has told."
*Daily Telegraph*
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