Every time I click “Accept” or “Agree” on one of those software end-user license agreements, I feel like a schnook. That’s Yiddish for a person who is gullible or easily cheated. (One Yiddish word generally outworks half a dozen English…
Tag: social media
Monkey See, Monkey Do in the Social Media Zoo
Social media images showed a young man holding an assault-style rifle. The text threatened a forthcoming attack in Florida. But it was not Nikolas Cruz, America’s mass killer du jour. It was a copycat in Spartanburg, S.C. After the disturbed…
If Thomas Jefferson had Twitter…
On this Independence Day, I salute editors—those unseen gatekeepers who make writing better and whose absence highlights the risks of too much independence. Freedom. Liberty. Rugged individualism. They are in our national DNA and inseparable from American culture. But like…
Blaming ‘the Media’ is What’s Lame
“For the 14th consecutive year, Fox News led in total viewers and in the 25-to-54-year-old demographic crucial to advertisers. The network’s average of 1.8 million viewers in prime time placed it second among all cable channels, the highest finish for…
(thought-lets)
n: the product of faster thinking and less reflection in the age of Twitter