Desperately seeking lowest common denominator
(Slate, Jack Shafer on Michael Crichton's opinion): ""The biggest change is that contemporary media has
- opinion and speculation....Contentious hosts on cable shows* keep the arguments rolling,"
- we live in an age of conformity much more confining than the 1950s....
- Instead of showing news consumers how to approach controversy coolly and intelligently,
- the media partake of the zealotry and intolerance
- From Slate by Jack Shafer, "Michael Crichton Vindicated--His 1993 prediction of mass-media extinction now looks on target." 5/29/08 via Poynter.org/Romenesko.
- Who will stop the media celebrities? Sorry--the "guardians, the conscience of the game?"
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