User: Jonny

Re:Very nicely written... NOT

On: The People Vs. Common Sense

If the purpose of writing something is for it to be read, this piece fails miserably. If they whole article is like the first paragraph, you're in for some tiresome reading:

Throughout much of the world today, mass media is prevalent to such a degree that it has become a cultural influence as deep as our languages and ethnic histories. The multifarious mediums through which human beings extend their inner being, their very sense of personal identity, are a teeming tangle of noise in the airwaves along which this "Age of Information" extends its influence into our homes, our minds, and our lives. Since the dawn of the human ability to create media as a means to communicate or simply to visualize the poignant tide of human thought, we have suffered the criticism of our fellow inhabitants within our communities. While endeavoring to bequeath our exclusive equities unto the world, we are often chagrined by remonstrations designed to terminate what many believe to be our God-given right to pursue. Parallel to the advent of society, there have been laws and law makers, empowered by militant services and the citizenry of which they are comprised, created and enforced to impose the will of the commonality. Parallel to that have been those who questioned whether or not those in power are in fact speaking for the commonalty and to what ends.

what matters

On: Bad Spelling Pays on eBay

From the article:

"On something like eBay though," she said, "it matters.'

On something like The New York Times matching quotation marks don't matter.