Tuesday, May 13, 2003

If you'll notice, the media doesn't serve humans, it serves other media, other machines. Though it wears humans as clothes.

That is the definition of the Android Meme.

I'm listening to a show about World Trade Center Hero Trading Cards, and how the Washington Post bashed the publishers of these cards on the front page of their paper for three days. The families of WTC victims willingly gave the photos and life story of the family member who died, but the journalists at the Post didn't even bother to ask how the families directly affected by the event felt before they began to editorialize.

That is because these particular journalists don't care about humans, they care about their media. And media is now just talking and fighting with other media, pretending it is human while ignoring actual humanity.

We gave up our subscription to the SJ-R and I couldn't be happier.

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