Then & Now
Today’s current events when compared with similar moments from times past may provide a new way of looking at both.
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13 years ago
This article prompted a discussion on NPR, I think Coupland was interviewed (I must admit I didn’t listen that closely). McLuhan was completely exonerated and is now revered as a visionary. I was in film school in the mid 1980s and we discussed McLuhan as part of our learning about the impact films have on […]
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13 years ago
“Often seen as an eccentric at best, a charlatan at worst, … last week events honored the centennial of the birth of the man who is now widely credited as the world’s first media theorist and who introduced ideas like “The medium is the message” and “the global village” into everyday use. … Instead of […]
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13 years ago
Marshall McLuhan Birth Centennial
“Often seen as an eccentric at best, a charlatan at worst, … last week events honored the centennial of the birth of the man who is now widely creditied as the world’s first media theorist and who introduced ideas like “The medium is the message” and “the global village” into everyday use… Instead of being…[Read more]
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13 years ago
FEARING THE ALTERNATIVE: LOW PAY AND NO BENEFITS – SOME IN THE MIDWEST SEE PUBLIC SERVICE AS ONLY ROUTE TO MIDDLE CLASS. (This heads an article in The New York Times, Wednesday, March 16, 2011, “Ohio Town Sees Public Job As Only Route to Middle Class.”) Public Service? Hah!! A second generation french speaking american, […]
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13 years ago
An essay by Dani Shapiro in the NYT Book Review* addresses the issue of truth and candor in writing about one’s own life. She worries that her twelve year old son will eventually discover and react badly to her tell-all memoir of her dissolute youth.
How should the possibility of hurt feelings and damage to reputations affect the need to tell…[Read more]
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13 years ago
Jerome started the forum topic Who's on the Family Tree? Now It's Complicated in the group
Here We Go!:
(The following is taken from a longer article by Laura M. Holson printed in, The New York Times, Tuesday, July 5, 2011>) When Laua Ashmore and her husband Lee, learned a few years ago that they could not conceive a child, her sister, Jennifer Williams offered to become pregnant with a donor’s sperm on behalf […]
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