Archives for 24 March 2007
“There are in fact no masses.” Raymond Williams quote.
Looking over my archives, I just ran into this quotation by Raymond Williams. It seems poignant with regard to mass media and culture, and ahead of its time in 1958.
“The masses are always the others, whom we don’t know, and can’t know. Yet now, in our kind of society, we see these others regularly, [...]
Short Post: Metaphor, Mediasnacking & Obesity
Two ideas have collided in my head over the past few weeks of frenetic work and business travel, and I want to share them here.
The first idea — that there is a discouraging epidemic of obesity and particularly childhood obesity in this country — isn’t new, but a rash of new PSA billboards on the [...]
