” Instead of having to read a packaged newspaper, we can get pieces of news from different web sites delivered to us every morning. An email. So you never have to read anything you’re not interested in, or you disagree with. It really can divide us dramatically. So there is no common culture, and if that happens, there won’t be any sort of source for political interaction, engagement, disagreement, and eventual compromise.”
Barry Schwartz, psychologist and author
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by Bob Garfield (Isbn-13: 9780984065103)
What happens when the old world order collapses and the Brave New World is unprepared to replace it as an ad medium, as a news source, as a political soapbox, a channel for new episodes of Lost? Welcome to The Chaos Scenario. It's here, and Bob Garfield saw it coming. In his roles as Advertising Age editor-at-large and as co-host of NPR's On the Media, Bob Garfield long ago connected dots that many in media and marketing refused even to acknowledge. In this fascinating, terrifying, instructive and...
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