Chris and Jack’s Hypnotic Blinking Screens with Changing Colors
YouTube sketch comedy Chris and Jack critiques media clichés, predictable outcomes, and our addiction to hypnotic screens; the very things of the series itself.
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“Paul McCartney Is Dead”: The Hoax That Just Won’t Die
The “Paul McCartney Is Dead” hoax is so familiar to the public that it is taught in psychology courses to illustrate confirmation bias. Why won’t it just die, already?
Christopher Hitchens and Fights Worth Having
You can smell the cigarette ash and Johnnie Walker Black Label on the pages of A Hitch in Time, a gleefully pugilistic posthumous Christopher Hitchens anthology.
‘Trump and the Media’: Work-in-Progress Dispatches from a Sinking Ship
The warning signs of a failing media system have always been there. This MIT Press collection of media scholars and activists casts light on recent media history and where it's taking us.
Christopher Hitchens Embraced and Devoured with Equal Passion
Christopher Hitchens’ interviews offer a tantalizing appetizer of the breadth, scope, and urgency of the legendary contrarian’s thoughts on culture and politics
I Can’t Bear to Watch, I Must Watch: McLuhan, Postman, DeLillo, and Trump
Americans’ voyeuristic attraction for scarlet-stained murder spectacles spills over into our need for similarly doomed entertainment in our highest national political office.