The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know About Itself
The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet
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news that’s fit to print,” but it delivered a large enough proportion of published topics that, as a practical proposition,
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
mean anything at all. On the front page of the gray old Times, I’m liable to encounter a chatty article about frying with propane gas. CNN lavished hours of airtime on a runaway bride. The magisterial tones of Walter Cronkite, America’s rich uncle, are lost to history, replaced by the ex-cheerleader mom style of Katie Couric. One reason the notion
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Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
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