Andrew Sullivan posted an excerpt from from an Atlantic story about media mogul Rupert Murdoch. Here’s part of it:
This is how Murdoch understands journalism—as content, a word he uses all the time, rather than as a form of literature or public service, and as a commodity whose value largely derives from its instant retail malleability.
It [...]
Was at work yesterday and saw the now familiar acronym “OMG” on a page.
OK, so it used to be that when I saw “OMG,” I translated it in my head: “Oh, my God.”
And then it came to pass that I translated it in my head just soundwise, as “oh em jee.”
Now I just see it [...]
If you’re going to start reading Marshall McLuhan—and you should; he’s deeply underappreciated, grossly misunderstood, and wildly perception-changing, once you start digging him—you’ll want to begin with Understanding Media. It’s simultaneously shorter and more expansive than his previous book, The Gutenberg Galaxy, and cheaper than the book before that, The Mechanical Bride (used paperbacks are [...]
