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paying attention
Your comments, however thoughtful and wise, are after all just another layer in the cacophony of advice, criticisms, denigrations, and observations that float across the airwaves. As the saying goes: Advice is cheap. Amid all of the bad and gratuitous advice out there, nevertheless kernels of wisdom occasionally get spoken and potential ...
Posted to Politics by dranonyme on September 17, 2008
Fark
Back in the 1985 Neil Postman warned of the dawn of this age of non-news in his book Amusing Ourselves To Death: Public Discourse In The Age of Show Business. It's still worth a read for its analysis of the impact of fark on America's ways of thinking.
Posted to Press Box by Doc R on June 5, 2008