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May 27, 2005
Now, this...
Exactly what Neil Postman was talking about when he claimed that television is a poor medium for propositional content: Its relentless movement in time not only doesn't allow for much reflection, it tends to equalize the (un)importance of events. When the anchor says "Now, this..." we could be moving from the important to the trivial, and this makes the trivial seem important by comparison. And the truly important? Well, it'll have to wait until after we learn who won American Idol.
Posted by acline at May 27, 2005 7:35 AM | | Spotlight