“The media is not a thing,” says Youngman. “The media are the people next to you on the train, and at the supermarket, and in the church just as much as they are the people on the TV or in the newspaper office.” via http://www.owenyoungman.com/Pages/0210Bylines.pdf
Owen Youngman
(A version was originally published in Pietisten, Summer 2000) By Owen Youngman Homebound families are all alike; but every traveling family tends to travel in its own way. (I would suppose that this is no longer true in the era of the back-seat VCR-outfitted television and the backlit full-color GameBoy, since […]
Roadside remembrances
(“Inside Chicago Tribune,” Jan. 17, 2000) The Chicago Tribune is having the last laugh when it comes to one of the more ignominious chapters in the newspaper’s storied history. Who can forget that infamous headline “Dewey Defeats Truman”? Certainly not the general public, and certainly not Editorial. “Fears raised by […]