As always, outstanding work. I am so grateful for you and authors like you. Your insights and knowledge give us the truths you write about. You’re the truth-serving outlet you write about. Thanks for speaking truth in a tornado of deceit.
Great Research! "When the Clock Broke" by John Gantz is a great read too; focuses entirely on the late 1980s and early 1990s news environment and polarization.
Great post. I would back up the argument to the advent of TV culture. Guy Debord nailed it in The Spectacle. Today's concerns about social media replacing face-to-face interaction, about politics becoming pure performance, about work relationships being mediated through screens - these aren't new problems created by technology. They're digital intensifications of the spectacle Debord identified decades ago, when television and consumer culture were first beginning to reshape how humans relate to each other.
As always, outstanding work. I am so grateful for you and authors like you. Your insights and knowledge give us the truths you write about. You’re the truth-serving outlet you write about. Thanks for speaking truth in a tornado of deceit.
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Great Research! "When the Clock Broke" by John Gantz is a great read too; focuses entirely on the late 1980s and early 1990s news environment and polarization.
Great post. I would back up the argument to the advent of TV culture. Guy Debord nailed it in The Spectacle. Today's concerns about social media replacing face-to-face interaction, about politics becoming pure performance, about work relationships being mediated through screens - these aren't new problems created by technology. They're digital intensifications of the spectacle Debord identified decades ago, when television and consumer culture were first beginning to reshape how humans relate to each other.
https://paultshattuck.substack.com/p/the-digital-paradox-why-we-hate-our
I enjoy your work so much. Thanks for writing, Lexi.
The cute picture at the top - CNN, NBC, NYT as the left - illustrates nothing so much as how far to the right the Overton Window has been pushed.