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:: Tuesday, July 11, 2006

A group of designers (National Design Award finalists and winners) recently declined to be honored at a White House breakfast:

We understand that politics often involves high rhetoric and the shading of language for political ends. However it is our belief that the current administration of George W. Bush has used the mass communication of words and images in ways that have seriously harmed the political discourse in America. We therefore feel it would be inconsistent with those values previously stated to accept an award celebrating language and communication, from a representative of an administration that has engaged in a prolonged assault on meaning.

posted 3:28 PM »BitBoy