Things I am Reading V

 After taking nearly three quarters of an hour to boot up my computer and rage quitting the AT&T account sign in page, I'm here in my happy place where technology has not proceeded past HTML and CSS.

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Spreading Awareness

In "Entertaining Ourselves to Death," a surprisingly good Media take, Neil Postman categorizes the bulk of 24 hr television news programming as consisting of pseudoevents or context-free information. Where the purpose of news is entertainment and not information, news gets molded to fit the medium, instead of vice versa, and it becomes full of modules that consist of time but not necessarily substance.

 


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