Isolation, anxiety, addiction, and escapism. Oh my!
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. Upton Sinclair (1934) After Alexandria Ocasio-Corte...
Tag: media
Please, Sir, May I Have Some More?
Netflix noticed something strange and unexpected among users of their video streaming service: they would watch all of the available episodes of a series before...
You’re Dead. Stop Kicking Me.
Interactive Television has always failed, and will always fail. A lesson from the early days of telephony is significant. Early on it was thought that telephony...
Observations Made While Waiting for an Oil Change
Are the anchors on Fox News trained in rhetorical technique, the use of logical fallacies, and paranoid sarcasm? Or do they just come by it naturally?
Parrots
The differences between American media and the BBC World Service in treatment of the financial situation with the automotive industry, or anything really, are j...