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I Didn’t Want It to Be True, but the Medium Really Is the Message
"Oral culture teaches us to think one way, written culture another. Television turned everything into entertainment, and social media taught us to think with the crowd." - Ezra Klein, NYT, I Didn’t Want It to Be True, but the Medium Really Is the Message
Naomi Razic added
- It seems distant now, but once upon a time the Internet was going to save us from the menace of TV. Since the late fifties, TV has had a special role, both as the country’s dominant medium, in audience and influence, and as a bête noire for a certain strain of American intellectuals, who view it as the root of all evil. In “Amusing Ourselves to Dea... See more
from On the Internet, We’re Always Famous by Chris Hayes
Alex Wittenberg added