Part 2 of a series; Previously: What Bell Labs and French Intellectuals Can Tell Us About Cronkite and Couric The Signal-to-Noise Journey of American Media The 20th Century represented a Golden Age […]
American media’s signal-to-noise ratio problem, part 1
Part one of a two-part series. From Walter Cronkite to Katie Couric: the Kingdom of Signal is swallowed by the Empire of Noise The recent death of Walter Cronkite spurred the predictable […]
Tributes censor Cronkite's anti-Iraq War stance
Cronkite Called War “Illegal from the Start,” Slammed Network Silence and Would’ve Spoken Out Again from Anchor Desk
And that's the way it was….
Once upon a time, he was the most trusted man in America. Today, at the age of 92, he passed away, one of the last icons of the early days of TV […]
The First Step
Forty years ago today, Apollo 11 lifted off from Cape Canaveral, heading for the moon. The astronauts would safely achieve orbit and, on July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong would take his famous […]
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