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consultant Ed Rollins. Rollins was
Sharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
about the bleating idiocy of American mass media in the era after 9/11 and the run-up to the Iraq War. In it, he offers a thought experiment that has stuck with me. Imagine, he says, being at a party, with the normal give and take of conversation between generally genial, informed people. And then “a guy walks in with a megaphone. He’s not the smar... See more
Chris Hayes • On the Internet, We’re Always Famous
But that can’t be right, right? Memories are funny.
Cecily Strong • This Will All Be Over Soon: A Memoir
he wrote continuously about the necessity of our understanding the politics and epistemology of media.
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
majority of protagonists are white, young, able-bodied American men,
Limor Shifman • Memes in Digital Culture (MIT Press Essential Knowledge)
Daring Fireball
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Howard K. Smith, who fled Nazi Germany on the last train from Berlin before Hitler declared war on the United States in 1941; James Cameron, whose iconic 1946 report from the Bikini atom tests was perhaps the most literary and philosophical article ever published in a newspaper.
Robert Fisk • The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
Don’t be fancy—be effective.
Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, • Smart Brevity
Even Lisa Simpson—literally a cartoon caricature of progressivism