George Saunders - The Braindead Megaphone: https://as1020.pbworks.com/f/saunders-braindead.pdf … Medium-short essay about the influence of mass media on our collective consciousness, especially as we were deciding to go to war in Iraq
Published in 2007, it focuses mostly on TV, and some parts feel innocent and outdated But other parts are very prescient, and in 2020 some of these ideas have been basically hacked to death A couple interesting quotes:
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Buzzfeed style cable news; it’s been a while since I watched network TV, but I’d forgotten how vapid the reporting waspic.twitter.com/EDLGxpUNim
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