Negative Space: news priorities
- Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
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Amusing Ourselves to Death is a disjointed effort to prove that the speed of modern communications is killing us, but it ignores basic features of modern communications, such as the ability of both sides to respond; and to the extent that modern communications empowers the individual he sees that as an evil, preferring the bundling of individuals by self-appointed elites as in the age of Tammany Hall.
- Cheney attacks Democrats, hits bird
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Seattle Post Intelligencer schools major newspapers on headlining articles.
- NBC’s laser talking head removal
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Remove unsightly talking heads? No, not Shriver’s. Look at this ad embedded in the NBC story about her resignation.
- Paranoid Times
- “On newspaper articles words dance. Reality and unreality collide on such a fundamental level that each becomes the other and anything is possible.”
- Profile Series: People who cannot be elected President
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Polls show that Jefferson Smith cannot be elected President of the United States. Our in-depth series profiles this non-candidate who doesn’t matter.
- Showboat media and showboat killers
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Showboat killers share a very important trait with the news media: they both want to become the top news story, and neither really care why they’re talked about.
