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...truly mass experiences - Olympics, elections, the Super Bowl - still play out on TV, even if "TV" now includes computers and phones. As for the loss of being able to make small talk with the mailman over who shot J.R. - I'll trade it for Mad Men and the ability to skip ads with TiVo. We'll find something else to talk about. (See the best and worst Super Bowl commercials...
...irony of the nostalgia for TV's "golden age" is that it romanticizes the very things people used to condemn. Mass media were once homogenizing; now we miss how they unified us. Culture critics once said TV appealed to the lowest common denominator; now cable's ambitious niche shows cater to élitists. Some even romanticize commercials - commercials! - as making TV for the masses possible...
...cost up to $50,000 a day to operate--three times the cost of a traditional day school with more than twice as many students. "It sounds very exciting, but the devil is in the details," says Ellen Bassuk, president of the National Center on Family Homelessness in Newton, Mass. "What's it like to separate a third- or fifth-grader from their parents...
...funding infusion—announced Wednesday by Mass. Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78 at CHA headquarters as part of $764 million of federal stimulus funding the state will earmark for health care—follows recent moves at CHA to close clinics, cut services, and lay off hundreds of employees as the Alliance struggled to manage a $55 million cut in state and federal funds announced last October...
F.D.R., however, was able to roadblock attention in American homes on the only mass broadcast medium in existence, one so new and intimate it still seemed like magic. Obama is in a mediasphere that includes broadcast, cable, blogs, Twitter and sundry home-entertainment boxes. To persuade in this world - and the President is not just the decider but also the persuader - you have to go multiplatform. (Read "The New Liberal Order...