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Public Thoughts on a Private World
“Nobody… nobody trusts anybody now. And we’re all very tired. There’s nothing else I can do. Just wait.” — The Thing, directed by John Carpenter, 1982 Toward the end of Part II, I mentioned Australia’s “News Media Bargaining Code” of 2021. I won’t recount for you here the complete history of that Act; suffice it … Read more
Mother, did it need to be so high? — Roger Waters, “Mother”, The Wall, 1979 In its first Annual Information Form for investors to treat “Digital” as a distinct revenue category, the Free Press‘ parent company boasted that “[t]raffic grew by 48 per cent, based on page views, in 2009. [winnipegfreepress.com] currently attracts about 100,000 … Read more
Education is ideally civil defense against media fall-out. Yet Western man has had, so far, no education or equipment for meeting any of the new media on their own terms. Literate man is not only numb and vague in the presence of film or photo, but he intensifies his ineptness by a defensive arrogance and … Read more