(politics) To make and disseminateslogans; often contrasted with substantive debate
2007, February 20, Michiko Kakutani, The Silence of the Rational Center, At such times, the nuanced and expert advice of what they call the rational center — career professionals, scholars, analysts and others working in government and at universities and think tanks — is sidelined or ignored, while emotional sloganeering is amplified by 24/7 cable news and Internet chatter that prize raucous confrontations between fervent avatars of the right and the left.
