Word: diversionism
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Back at the FAA, workers were filing into the building, and reports were flooding in. Contacting experienced aviation sources did nothing to clear up the chaos. And there were no explicit reports from the airplanes themselves that they had been hijacked. (The system has certain codes that are a simple...
This is an old story that needs no belaboring. What I mean to get at - beyond the devastations caused to journalism by cut-budget venality on the owners' side and a gradual moronization of the audience on the receiving end - is a dawning intuition among some Americans (not all of...
All those foldout bunnies represented something of the same diversion that we see in the diversionary journalistic spectacles of the last ten years. The real purpose of sex is not to put a grin on Hefner's goofy face, but to accomplish the relentless ongoing business of genetic reproduction. And...
But the violence at anticapitalist demonstrations can't be attributed solely to radical groups like AFA. Sebastian Stein, 19, of Bad Munstereifel, Germany, says he went to Sweden on a fishing trip and thought the "Reclaim the City" rally in Goteborg would make for an exciting diversion. But when baton...
Now, I won’t pretend that all Harvard students desire from the box is news and information. The TV’s primary role is as a source of diversion; but is there really anything wrong with that? Intramural sports are not academic, and they’re...