Sublime

the weight assigned to any form of truth-telling is a function of the influence of media of communication.

For countless Americans, seeing, not reading, became the basis for believing.

the epistemological shift I have intimated, and will describe in detail, has not yet included (and perhaps never will include) everyone and everything.

For if remembering is to be something more than nostalgia, it requires a contextual basis—a theory, a vision, a metaphor—something within which facts can be organized and patterns discerned.

The real authority on a world we now view as constructed and not depicted becomes the medium that constructs our world-view.

This is gross technological naivete. If the delivery is not the same, then the message, quite likely, is not the same.

Herbst argues that public opinion possesses a dual nature: opinion formation and the expression it generates.

Pastor Glade nailed the single most important lesson of modern communications—short, smart, simple and direct can break through and persist.

new forms of media might help support public spheres in which consensus-based communication could occur between “responsible actors.”