Modern Tower of Babel
November 19, 2009
We have reconstructed the Tower of babel and it is a television antenna, a thousand voices producing a daily parody of democracy in which everyone’s opinion is afforded equal weight regardless of substance or merit. Indeed, it can even be argued that opinions of real weight tend to sink with barely a trace in television’s ocean of banalities.
– Ted Koppel, commencement address at Duke University, 1987
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