There have been a couple of political threads buzzing around lately--some have been moved, some are about Michael Vick, but all of them contain posts that make me think of Tom Wolfe's introduction to The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby.
And since it occurred to me, without fail, in every single of one these threads, I figured I'd share it and get some thoughts:
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Originally Posted by Tom Wolfe I don't mean for this to sound like "I had a vision" or anything, but there was a specific starting point for practically all of these stories. I wrote them in a fifteen-month period, and the whole thing started with the afternoon I went to a Hot Rod & Custom Car show at the Coliseum in New York. Strange afternoon! I was sent up there to cover the Hot Rod & Custom Car show by the New York Herald Tribune, and I brought back exactly the kind of story and of the somnambulistic totem newspapers in America would have come up with. A totem newspaper is the kind people don't really buy to read but just to have, physically, because they know it supports their own outlook on life. They're just like the buffalo tongues the Omaha Indians used to carry around or the dog ears the Mahili clan carried around in Bengal. |
So, what'd'ya think? Is he full of it? Is he right on the money?
Could you apply the idea to news networks and websites as well?
