In the current edition of the New Yorker, Eric Alterman writes:
In the current edition of the New Yorker, Eric Alterman writes:
Yes, technologies are biases that enhance some forms of social organisation and inhibit others, but I remain unconvinced that the viability of a nation, let alone democracy as a whole, is dependent on the transmission of news remaining frozen at a certain level of mechanical and technological development.
If you want more, you’ll have to read my column in the print edition of Maclean’s now on sale.