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...Most panelists agreed that, again, the media is in part to blame for a prejudiced view of Islam. Laila said she found the rhetoric spewed from CNN and Fox reporters to be very scary. She also noted that a C-SPAN reporter randomly accosted a man who appeared to be Muslim in order to question his patriotism. The idea behind the question, Laila said, is that it follows that if you dont respond, you support what happened...
...smoking marijuana because it is “a healthy medicine.” This year, it appeared that the latter of Lapey’s two lures was better bait, as bands like Scissorfight failed to make much of a dent in the crowd’s attention span. In a bizarre afternoon that combined incongruous heavy metal, terrorist references and tie-dye, committed pot activists hoped that the government would soon swallow some medicine of their own and move to decriminalize marijuana. —Erik A. Beach
...Baby Go Play (90 plays in 90 minutes) and Short Songs for Short People (90 punk songs in 90 minutes), Phi-Phenomenon gave its audience 10 bands in one hour—five minute sets, one minute between sets. Perfect for today’s sound byte, short attention span, try-it-before-you-buy-it-world: You get to sample several artists live, without having to commit time or money to any that you should happen to dislike...
Moviegoers had a short attention span this summer. Box-office grosses fell quickly. The drop-off (in millions...
...America explore the rich reciprocal possibilities of the fatwa. A policy of focused brutality does not come easily to a self-conscious, self-indulgent, contradictory, diverse, humane nation with a short attention span. America needs to relearn a lost discipline, self-confident relentlessness--and to relearn why human nature has equipped us all with a weapon (abhorred in decent peacetime societies) called hatred...