(1) While the media certainly has the obligation to report on the news, one wonders how much complicity it is taking on by giving these sorts of groups such an open and fairly uncritical soapbox on which to make their demands.(2) Therefore I feel obliged to get up on my soapbox and voice my opinion.(3) I do tend to get up on my soapbox about this issue(4) Thus, blogs can function as a teen's diary, a political pundit's soapbox , or even simply as one person's view of the news.(5) Through the use of chat rooms, any person with a phone line can become a town crier with a voice that resonates farther than it could from any soapbox .(6) And while I'm on this soapbox , don't forget to give blood if you are eligible.(7) But there's a difference between that, and being on your whole anti-male, feminist soapbox , ranting away.(8) a soapbox orator(9) If not, what does it take to convince you that you're providing a soapbox to an unstable lunatic?(10) He never questioned his own devotion to theater; an actor's actor, he would set up on a soapbox and perform for a scarce audience if the situation called for it.(11) They believe their own hype, and they have a powerful soapbox from which to promote it.(12) First, these protests allowed workers to express their political views; as already noted, in this respect they might be seen as similar to the soapbox speakers and the cafeterias which lined the Square.(13) To the side of it stood a lonely soapbox and a microphone.(14) But I'll get up on my soapbox about almost anything if I hear someone else express a strong opinion about it that I don't agree with.(15) It seems that you would rather get up on your soapbox and shout then have a meaningful conversation.(16) To some it is the lowest form of radio, yet the phone-in show, that bizarre combo of confessional, soapbox and sounding board, is the one medium where the public ceases to be a statistic and actually finds its voice.
