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Object lesson?

Or at least they, being young, will listen and say: “Let me win the lottery first.”

Like I said, you cannot teach the young to be patient.

Joking aside, it really is difficult to share abstract lessons with others, don’t you think?

Anyways, object lessons are lessons told through an object, usually a real example from life.

Here are more media examples to illustrate the point:

1. One of the key issues in any president’s reelection campaign is whether he has kept his promises. So a web video released this week by the Obama campaign, in conjunction with the Iowa caucuses, can be seen as an example of the White House laying the groundwork for making the case that the president has kept his promises.

The video shows Obama making his victory speech four years ago in Iowa, and then interjects it with headlines showing how the president has met his pledge. The overall result is slick, but a careful viewer will note that the words that follow in the headlines do not always quite match up with the president’s words.

The Obama campaign provided extensive documentation--13 pages Obama 2008 speech

“Passed the Affordable Care Act to make health care more affordable for more than 30 million Americans.”

-- headline after his statement

No matter what one thinks of Obama’s health care law, it was certainly a signature legislative achievement—the most sweeping health care law since the creation of Medicare. But notice that Obama said he would bring health care to “every single American,” but the headline simply says “more than 30 million Americans.”