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“Highly personal and original . . . McKibben goes beyond Marshall McLuhan’s theory that the medium is the message.”
——The New York Times
Imagine watching an entire day’s worth of television on every single channel. Acclaimed environmental writer and culture critic Bill McKibben subjected himself to this sensory overload in an experiment to verify whether we are truly better informed than previous generations. Bombarded with newscasts and fluff pieces, game shows...
About the Author
Bill McKibben is the author of more than a dozen books, including The End of Nature, Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age, and Deep Economy. A former staff writer for The New Yorker, he writes often for Harper's Magazine, National Geographic, and the New York Review of Books, among other publications. He is the founder of the environmental organizations Step It Up and 350.org, a global-warming awareness campaign that in October 2009 coordinated what CNN...
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If you have a cold, you do not need to worry about reinfecting yourself with your lip balm.” That’s Beverly, who leads Christian calisthenics on Channel 116, Family Net. “If you used someone else’s lip balm, I could see that. But not your own.” So much happens between seven and eight in the morning on the ninety-three stations of the Fairfax, Virginia, cable...
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- PublisherRandom House Trade Paperbacks
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 081297607X
- ISBN 13 9780812976076
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages288
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