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    Archive for August, 2008

    Media Insults

    Saturday, August 30th, 2008

    If you’ve read media critics Neil Postman, Marshall McLuhan, or Douglas Rushkoff, you are keenly aware of the transformation of the news media over time from an entity that reports news and/or investigates to an entity that creates it, or angles coverage to draw attention to itself as an entertainment medium. For that matter, if [...]

    It Takes A Long Time

    Thursday, August 28th, 2008

    I just finished some reading on Miles Davis, an the innovative jazz trumpeter/composer known for his “cool jazz” style. The article discussed Davis’ creative obsession with an idea that a single note could convey all the beauty of music, and his quest to find that note and express it. Pretty impressive; but I was struck [...]