Journalists Continue to Think They Have a Monopoly on Truth
Bonnie Kristian at Christianity Today
Topic
Media
A collection of 13 issues
Cell Phones, Radio, and the Philosophy of Marshall McLuhan
“Hot” media and “cool” media were McLuhan’s buzz dichotomy. A hot medium is one that extends one of our senses. A cool medium is one that requires a lot from one of our senses.
How Have These Ten Extensions Changed Us?
Toward the end of his life, Marshall McLuhan provided a list of the ten things that have changed us the most.
Perhaps the biggest difference between childhood and adulthood is time. The adult frantically looks for more time. The child looks for ways to fill time.
I filled a lot
My Part in Vice’s Downfall
Aris Roussinos at UnHerd
Self-Cancellation, Deplatforming, and Censorship
Nick Gillespie at Reason
Our Modern Superpowers are the Worst
Welcome, Heroes, to the Training Grounds of our new lives.
We have been bitten by the spider descendent of the Industrial and Digital Revolutions, and we have been given a host of new superpowers and they only come with a few drawbacks.
You know how this goes: it seems every
The Unfortunate Ubiquity of Smartphones
Bill Kauffman at The Spectator
Don't Judge a Book by Its Cover, I Suppose
I know nothing about this book except what I read in this review. If the reviewer is honest, the publisher isn't. Of course, the publisher is Doubleday, which is probably about as mainstream (corporate, legacy, establishment) media as you get, so it shouldn't surprise me that
Post-Journalism: Objectivity is No Longer the Goal
Jonathan Turley
How the Media Polarized Us
By Audrey Mir at City Journal