"What you observe is a great wasteland."

[longship]

13. I have a problem with the concept of being sunk...

...by missing four episodes of Breaking Bad one is sunk.

I would prefer that people enjoy entertainment and realize that it is what it is. I would prefer that people understand that the televisionary set -- thank you, Gabby Hayes -- rarely informs. It deforms.

I would invoke Marshall McLuhan here for those who don't understand the concept, but television is a cultural changing technology, and little of it is for the betterment.

Both Nimow and McLuhan understood both it's cultural power and its dangers.

The medium is indeed the massage.

Tell me more about what Oprah's been saying, or what Wolf Blitzer thinks today.

Journalism outside the Internet is dead.