From Wikipedia: Metonymy is a figure of speech used in rhetoric in which a thing or concept is not called by its own name, but by the name of something intimately associated with that thing or concept. For instance, “Hollywood” is used as a metonym for US cinema, because of the fame and cultural identity … Radio As A Metonym?
In my last post, I wrote that Samuel J. Wurzelbacher (a.k.a. Joe The Plumber) had signed up to become a war correspondent for a small, conservative online news site called Pajamas TV. Well, Joe arrived in Israel and began reporting on what he was observing. My initial suspicion was that he grossly under estimated the … Joe The Correspondent Fumbles; Bono Celebrates
