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Re: effects of commercialization
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Clover Andrew)
Thu Mar 30 03:34:13 2000
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From: Clover Andrew <aclover@1VALUE.com>
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Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 10:22:30 +0200
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James P. Salsman, quoting Norman Solomon, wrote:
> Over the next few years, while Internet usage continued to grow
> by leaps and bounds, the news media increasingly downplayed
> "information superhighway" imagery
Well Amen to that.
I may not be a widely-published media wossname, but I would like to
present my scholarly analysis of this.
Namely that people finally got bored of a tired and shallow metaphor,
and realised that saying it, like prepending everything with "cyber-"
was a great way to avoid being taken seriously.
This year's language fad is "e-"everything. I hope it goes the same
way.
Thanks then.
--
Andrew Clover
Technical Support
1VALUE.com AG
