Disconnected America
The Consequences of Mass Media in a Narcissistic World
Ed Shane PSU P92.U5 S48 2001
- p66 The worst crimes are increasing in central cities, but not suburbs.
- September 1993, tourist shot in car at Miami International, another shot at rest area 500 miles north
- conflated by national TV, hence Floridians say their state a dangerous place to live
- Public rated DC as fourth most violent city, actually 88th on 1995 American Demographics list, not published after 2004
p99 Martin Hash ( Animation Master software for Windows)
- "only 1 in 10,000 will purchase a $199 animation program, but everyone will pay a nickle for five minutes of entertainment ... It's amazing how the brittle mantle of civility is shattered if even the thinnest veil of anonymity is shattered"
- And anonymity is the best friend of the disconnected.
p166 "To pretend that one can provide a remedy would not only be naïve but duplicitous, since it would necessarily indulge in the same sort of fantasy that got us here in the first place: that problems, like crises in movies, are susceptible to simple narrative solutions" Neal Gabler, Life in the Movie 1999, p9