Mediasaurus: Crichton’s 1993 article about the impeding extinction of mass media
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/1.04/mediasaurus_pr.html
Money quote: "The media are an industry, and their product is information. And along with many other American industries, the American media produce a product of very poor quality. Its information is not reliable, it has too much chrome and glitz, its doors rattle, it breaks down almost immediately, and it's sold without warranty. It's flashy but it's basically junk. So people have begun to stop buying it."
posted at 4:02 pm
on Nov. 10, 2008
