Word: informative
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Inform me how I can get important letter to you. Urgent. Jafsie...
Darkness. Silence. Suddenly a blinding array of bright blue lights blast the eager crowd into “Next Exit.” Smooth chords on the keyboard entice lead singer Paul Banks to inform the audience of their new fate: “We ain’t going to the town, we’re going to the city...
Before the idiot box was idiotic and the boob tube gained its, well, boob, there was truth on television. The vast wasteland was sprinkled with islands of worth: news programs, those last bastions of truth in a swirling sea of superficiality, were always there to inform, frankly and objectively. Americans could sleep peacefully knowing that the Rather-Brokaw-Jennings triumvirate could always be counted on to emerge from the evening twilight, ready to tell an anxious nation how to think and what to believe...
Rather than inform us of who in the media are responsible (at least in part) for its sorry state, we are left with yet another story about the nameless “them.” So instead of a story about a news channel gone wrong, we’ve got a story about Grice. The cable channel is still doing its lousy job serving the public, secure in knowing it hasn’t been “outted.” In the end I’m still left with crappy news. Nothing has changed. What...
...media is a powerful collective. It is an agenda-setter, an informer, a manipulator, and most importantly, an educator. This woman was telling me “to stick to” something that propagated an illusion of what’s going on here at Harvard. I wanted to tell her where she could “stick” that advice, and to inform her that it’s rather shoddy journalism to tell an interviewee what they can and can’t say. In its role as an educator, one would like to believe that...