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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
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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... See more
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sources in any but the
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authoritative sources without
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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number of new sources,
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
the web, of course) a study conducted by some very clever researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.