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(My 93-year-old mother has kept her subscription to the Washington Post strictly because she loves the crossword puzzles. I have shown her websites teeming with crossword puzzles, but she remains unmoved. My mother wants her bundle, and belongs to the last generation to do so.) Information sought a less grandiose, less industrial level of
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Center for Journalism & Liberty • Democracy, Journalism, and Monopoly: How to Fund Independent News Media in the 21st Century
- The MP3—destroyer of the music industry—arrived in 1993. Blogs appeared in 1997, and Blogger, the first
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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Together, this ensemble of electronic techniques called into being a new world—a peek-a-boo world, where now this event, now that, pops into view for a moment, then vanishes again.