Friday, August 26, 2005
Media, Blogs, and the Rise of the Non-Event
Joe Carter has a good post this morning on the 24-hour news cycle and the creation of news: "How is it possible for a man whose opinion no one values to make a comment on a cable television show that no one watches and have it turn into a topic that no one can stop talking about? Because we have all become insatiable consumers of the media and when there is no news to report, the new product must be, as late historian Daniel Boorstin explained, created..."
