BONN: Its hard to accept that you don’t exist That’s what I found outabout myself yesterday when Luftansa told me that I was nowhere to be foundin their computer system, and hence, no ticket to fly to the Media AgendaConference in Germany. Ten calls later, and with the help of one of thosealphabet soup authorization [...]
QUOTES OF THE DAY: From Raymond Williams, the British media analyst and social critic: “Till the eyes tire, millions of us watch the shadows of shadows and find them substance,” as quoted in Bruce Cumings’ essential book, WAR AND TELEVISION (l992), and closer to home, from a sprit still with us: “Whoever controls the media [...]
My media sermon this morning begins with a psalm from the Book of Card, an utterance by the White House Chief of Staff , Andrew Card, who sounds like Noam Chomsky with a revelation reported prominently on the front page of today’s New York Times, the “newspaper of record.” Quote: “The early days of any [...]
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