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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
Nothing went in print for a politician unless it was iron-clad.
Matthew Richardson • The Scarlet Papers: The Times Thriller of the Year 2023
From David Ogilvy:
... See moreThrough maddening repetition, some of my obiter dicta have been woven into our culture. Here are some of them:
(1) “We sell – or else."
(2) “You cannot bore people into buying your product; you can only interest them in buying it.”
(3) "We prefer the discipline of knowledge to the anarchy of ignorance. We pursue knowledge the way a p
Stock-market fraud, steganography and cyberattacks…in 1834! The fascinating tale of Blanc brothers
Andrea Fortunaandreafortuna.org
public and advertising.”
Leslie F. Stebbins • Finding Reliable Information Online: Adventures of an Information Sleuth
this troubled world can be achieved by acquiring and wielding a special kind of know-how, a knowledge that alone can save.3
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
Charles Wintour
theguardian.com
For us in England something will have perished which our fathers valued all the more because they hardly troubled to name it;