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Of course, in television's presentation of the "news of the day," we may see the Now...this" mode of discourse in it's boldest and most embarrassing f...more

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In America, everyone is entitled to an opinion, and it is certainly useful to have a few when a pollster shows up. But these are opinions of a quite d...more

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We may say then that the contribution of the telegraph to public discourse was to dignify irrelevance and amplify impotence. But this was not all: Tel...more

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Exposition is a mode of thought, a method of learning, and a means of expression. Almost all of the characteristics we associate with mature discourse...more

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The clearest way to see through a culture is to attend to its tools for conversation.

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The point is that television does not reveal who the best man is. In fact, television makes impossible the determination of who is better than whom, i...more

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For no medium is excessively dangerous if its users understand what its dangers are. It is not important that those who ask the questions arrive at my...more

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Moreover, we have seen enough by now to know that technological changes in our modes of communication are even more ideology-laden than changes in our...more

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I should go so far as to say that embedded in the surrealistic frame of a television news show is a theory of anticommunication, featuring a type of d...more

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Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge is, of course, giving your opinion to a pollster, w...more

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In saying no one knew about the ideas implicit in the telegraph, I am not quite accurate. Thoreau knew. Or so one may surmise. It is alleged that upon...more