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Gurri is no fan of elites or of centralized authority, but he notes a constructive feature of the pre-digital era: a single “mass audience,” all consuming the same content, as if they were all looking into the same gigantic mirror at the reflection of their own society. In a comment to Vox that recalls the first post-Babel diaspora, he said: " The ... See more

The Atlantic • Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid

The internet is a dialogic space. There is no consensus, no cascading of a single point of view. There is no order.

john v willshire • The Dialogic Brand

“A lot of the narrative around media is that it’s given us truth. I don’t think the media has ever given us truth. The media has given us consensus; they’re very different things.” – David Perell

Anthony Pompliano • Writing for Leverage, Teenage Billionaires, The Problem with Mainstream Media, and More - David Perell on Off the Chain, Hosted By Anthony Pompliano • Podcast Notes

with “warrens” of discourse guided by journalist moderators.

Marie K. Shanahan • Journalism, Online Comments, and the Future of Public Discourse

The news elicits from you a variety of opinions about which you can do nothing except to offer them as more news, about which you can do nothing.

Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

So when it comes to effective communication, small beats large, short beats long, and plain beats complex. And sometimes a visual beats them all.

Dr. Frank Luntz • Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear

We sometimes treat the information industries as if they were like any other enterprise, but they are not, for their structure determines who gets heard. It is in this context that Fred Friendly, onetime CBS News president, made it clear that before any question of free speech comes the question of “who controls the master switch.”

Tim Wu • The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

Russert, like Cramer, when exposed as complicit in the dissemination of misinformation, attempted to portray himself as an innocent victim, as did New York Times reporter Judy Miller, who, along with her colleague Michael Gordon, worked largely as stenographers for the Bush White House during the propaganda campaign to invade Iraq. Once the adminis

Chris Hedges • Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

Understanding Media

quotes from McLuhan + other writing that reminded me of his work

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