"Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care."
-William Safire
"cant stand peps cant believe Im promoting sumthing bc I believe in the product!! 2 bad the 1s who hate will never really b happy!"
-Khloe Kardashian on Twitter
Media critic Neil Postman asked (and I paraphrase): Just because information can travel quickly over great distances…is it news?
In her Huffington Post article, Nancy Snow echoes Postman as she points out that on Google News, the wedding of reality TV star Khloe Kardashian and Los Angeles Lakers' forward Lamar Odom is getting more hits than the death of New York Times columnist, William Safire.
In her Huffington Post article, Nancy Snow echoes Postman as she points out that on Google News, the wedding of reality TV star Khloe Kardashian and Los Angeles Lakers' forward Lamar Odom is getting more hits than the death of New York Times columnist, William Safire.
Snow suggests the fact that “the death of an esteemed giant in American journalism is less newsworthy than a second-tier celebrity wedding” speaks volumes about the decline of American journalism. Read the story here.
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