David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) American fiction writer and essayist
"Host: Deep into the mercenary world of take-no-prisoners political talk radio." The Atlantic, April 2005.
Essays
Interview on Indian Express http://www.indianexpress.com/news/morning-raga/518584/2 (2009)
David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) American fiction writer and essayist
"Host: Deep into the mercenary world of take-no-prisoners political talk radio." The Atlantic, April 2005.
Essays
“It is the poets and painters who react instantly to a new medium like radio or TV.”
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
Source: 1960s, Understanding Media (1964), p. 53
“But these TV channels kept on playing up the same incidents over and over again.”
Narendra Modi (1950) Prime Minister of India
2014, "Narendra Modi on the Role of NDTV during the 2002 Riots", 2014
Context: It was my endeavour that we restore peace at the earliest possible. If you look at the data you will see that in 72 hours we had put down the riots and brought the situation under control. But these TV channels kept on playing up the same incidents over and over again. At the time, Rajdeep [Sardesai] and Barkha [Dutt] were in the same channel NDTV. During those inflamed days, Barkha acted in the most irresponsible manner. Surat had not witnessed any communal killings, barring a few small incidents of clashes. However the bazaars were closed [as a precautionary measure]. Barkha stood amidst closed shops screaming "This is Surat’s diamond market, but there is not a single police man here."
Gena Showalter (1975) American writer
Source: The Darkest Surrender
Ted Nelson (1937) American information technologist, philosopher, and sociologist; coined the terms "hypertext" and "hypermedia"
Dream Machines
Computer Lib/Dream Machines (1974, rev. 1987)
Narendra Modi (1950) Prime Minister of India
2014, "Narendra Modi on the Role of NDTV during the 2002 Riots", 2014
Mao Zedong (1893–1976) Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
Chapter 6 https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/ch06.htm, originally published in Speech at the Supreme State Conference (September 8, 1958). <br class="br">Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong (The Little Red Book)