Hear hear, MooKow. Mr. Katz has previously claimed that newspapers are dying. But newspapers have editors, who wouldn't let some of Katz's buzzwords pass without clarification. This is a problem with this otherwise great new democratic media venue of slashdot.
Some buzzword examples: "techno-driven global economic boom" (so previous economic booms weren't driven by new technologies? How about the steam engine, railway or telegraph?) "Mass marketing technologies" (TV? radio? plastic packaging? UPC codes? Fiberoptic cables? 8-mm cameras? etc?) "Disneyfied" (so everything becomes more cartoony? Or people aren't allowed to wear earrings and have to keep their hair cut short? Or everything's 5/6 of its normal size?) "The Media" (Obviously the monolithic entity conspiring with 'Them' against valiant rebels like Katz, Mulder and Scully) "Non-conformity" (against this above monolithic entity)
Other words: "Corporate Republic" "The civic system" "moral restraint" "globalism" "ideology" "sanitized", etc. etc. Entire shelves of academic libraries are filled with books devoted to these topics.
I want to come down particularly hard on Katz because I *agree* with many of his statements. But you're *wasting my time*, Mr. Katz: tell us something we don't already know. So the U.S. is a 'corporate republic.' So what?
You plaintively wonder if anyone's even listening at the end of your piece. No more 'filler' articles like this, please, or you'll soon have the answer to this question.
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Hear hear, MooKow. Mr. Katz has previously claimed that newspapers are dying. But newspapers have editors, who wouldn't let some of Katz's buzzwords pass without clarification. This is a problem with this otherwise great new democratic media venue of slashdot.
Some buzzword examples:
"techno-driven global economic boom" (so previous economic booms weren't driven by new technologies? How about the steam engine, railway or telegraph?)
"Mass marketing technologies" (TV? radio? plastic packaging? UPC codes? Fiberoptic cables? 8-mm cameras? etc?)
"Disneyfied" (so everything becomes more cartoony? Or people aren't allowed to wear earrings and have to keep their hair cut short? Or everything's 5/6 of its normal size?)
"The Media" (Obviously the monolithic entity conspiring with 'Them' against valiant rebels like Katz, Mulder and Scully)
"Non-conformity" (against this above monolithic entity)
Other words: "Corporate Republic" "The civic system" "moral restraint" "globalism" "ideology" "sanitized", etc. etc. Entire shelves of academic libraries are filled with books devoted to these topics.
I want to come down particularly hard on Katz because I *agree* with many of his statements. But you're *wasting my time*, Mr. Katz: tell us something we don't already know. So the U.S. is a 'corporate republic.' So what?
You plaintively wonder if anyone's even listening at the end of your piece. No more 'filler' articles like this, please, or you'll soon have the answer to this question.