Word: medias
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Both attention controllers and attention seekers can have fatal blind spots. The attention controllers, like Woods, come to believe that their accomplishments in the real world, along with their personal wealth, can insulate them from the artificial world of media frenzies. By the time they realize they're wrong, they find that, like the golf champ, they're not in a protective bunker but in a sand trap, and digging themselves deeper. (See pictures of Elin and Tiger Woods on Golf.com...
Attention seekers like the Salahis, and before them the Heenes, suffer the opposite delusion: believing that their success in the world of pseudocelebrity insulates them from real-world consequences. In a state of media-induced temporary insanity, you might forget that people could get annoyed at you for faking your kid's balloon accident or that the feds would not laugh off a breach of the President's security as a hoot for a reality show. You close your eyes and hear the crowd cheering for an encore when they're actually gathering torches and pitchforks...
Tiger Woods really needs his wife. And his A game. That's the opinion of experts in the art of getting people through media crises like the one the golf champ faces after his single-car crash led to a multiwoman pileup of infidelity allegations. If Woods can persuade his wife Elin Nordegren not only to stick by him, but also to say in the presence of a large media outlet or two that she has forgiven her imperfect husband and that everyone else should feel free to do likewise, then resurrecting his image is easier than nine holes...
...major reason parents overschedule kids is to pull them away from mind-numbing electronic devices. Also, shame on you for underplaying how members of the media fuel parental protectiveness. It would be much easier to loosen the grip if the media stopped preying on parents' worst fears...
...UC’s website now includes a detailed spreadsheet listing hundreds of available rooms to reserve across campus. The site also conveniently contains information about each room’s capacity, media capabilities, and contact person. According to committee members, the UC plans to soon integrate this spreadsheet into the Computer Science 50 maps.cs50.net interface with help from instructor David J. Malan ’99. The Office of Student Life has also assisted with the overall project. We are pleased to see both faculty and the administration work and support the UC in an endeavor that is bound...