Soundbites versus series of tubes
This story from the AP was on the front page of the D&C yesterday, of all places:
Americans dissatisfied with political sound bites are turning to the Internet for a more complete picture, a new study finds.
In a report Sunday, the Pew Internet and American Life Project said that nearly 30% of adults have used the Internet to read or watch unfiltered campaign material — footage of debates, position papers, announcements and transcripts of speeches.
“They want to see the full-blown campaign event. They want to read the speech from beginning to end,” said Lee Rainie, director of the Pew group. “It’s a push back from the sound-bite culture.”
Interestingly enough, I saw this on the front page of the D&C at a newspaper dispenser yesterday, but when I tried to find it in the paper’s archives today by searching for the words “web sound bites”, I came across this culture-coarsening culture article in the upper left-hand corner of this screen capture. Now, I happen to be a big fan of Dan Savage, but it was a bit funny to run across this in a search on the D&C, given that the members of the paper’s editorial board spend a lot of time complaining about the profanity in movies like Zohan.
Since when did the D&C start running Savage Love? They can’t be running it in print, can they?
Ah, it’s in the Insider:
http://www.rochesterinsider.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080613/INSIDER57/806130308/-1/INSIDER42
But the D&C’s CMS somehow puts it in the D&C, too.
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