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As a showman, he saw these exposures as fuel to the fire, a bucket of kerosene rather than a bucket of water.
Teller Jim Steinmeyer • Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear
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nytimes.com
I started working on this piece because I've found myself going to homepages more often. It's a way to get a controlled, curated look at what a publication offers, and a ch... See more
Our culture’s adjustment to the epistemology of television is by now all but complete; we have so thoroughly accepted its definitions of truth, knowledge, and reality that irrelevance seems to us to be filled with import, and incoherence seems eminently sane.
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
‘Not second screen enough’: is Netflix deliberately dumbing down TV so people can watch while scrolling?
Ralph Jonestheguardian.com
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
... See moreMartin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Nathan Baschez • Journalism, Subscriptions, and Podcasting with Li Jin and Nathan Baschez
Jimmy was sold on us and we were sold on him, but Lorne Michaels was skeptical. He was honest about why: he felt that the Roots, already established as artists, would distract Jimmy, who would be struggling with the pressures of a new show. No talk show comes out of the gate winning, he said. There’s no honeymoon period; instead there’s a period of
... See moreAhmir "Questlove" Thompson • Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove
