Michael Socolow
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Communication & Journalism, University of Maine 2019 Fulbright Scholar, University of Canberra Tweets=my own opinions
Bangor, Maine
Joined March 2013
Just occurred to me:. Ms. NOW. [Ms. magazine + National Organization for Women?]. Could it be subliminal branding?.It's their target demo.
news: MSNBC is renaming itself MS NOW (My Source News Opinion World).
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This is from Stanton's copy of "The Nielsen Researcher" [Oct., 1939] reviewing previous year's test of audimeters. Stanton's handwritten notation ("Chase and Sanborn")- program's not identified in the report. Listeners didn't desert the No. 1-rated broadcast until very end.
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*Nobody* fiddled w/ radio dial to tune in "War of the Worlds." .This graph has never been cited. It's for The Chase and Sanborn Hour in 1938, when Nielsen first tested audimeters (minute-by-minute) listening in midwest. From the Frank Stanton papers (Library of Congress). He knew
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This idea was prompted by the incredible amount of talent in arts/film/book criticism that's recently been unleashed by corporate overlords. Many excellent critics + writers out there looking for a home- build one worth paying for?.They should band together like @DefectorMedia.
There's an opening right now for a Su**tack newsletter titled: "Op-eds, Reviews & Obits". They're 3 historical newspaper features we know readers love, but advertisers don't support anymore* (perfect for subscription model). *Because they can't exert control over the content.
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There's an opening right now for a Su**tack newsletter titled: "Op-eds, Reviews & Obits". They're 3 historical newspaper features we know readers love, but advertisers don't support anymore* (perfect for subscription model). *Because they can't exert control over the content.
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We can't say we weren't warned. Berners-Lee noted that using hypertext links often would be the only way we'd all be able to avoid being stuck deep down in "cultural potholes.". That's also *precisely* why links remain algorithmically degraded here on X.
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Unbelievably prescient 1997 warning from inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, on the danger of what the web could evolve to if we weren't careful. People locked into "weird. cultural potholes" with "a few crazy fanatics.". Sounds like Twitter/X. Link in reply⬇️
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"Chronicling America" has over 23 million digitized newspaper pages easily searchable. Go ahead and see if you can find when a relative made the news (like I did), or browse and explore interesting subjects using the guide.
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The Library of Congress just updated "Chronicling America" [its archival newspaper database] for first time in 14 years. New version has new easy-to-use subject headings. I found America's first "Agony Aunt" [advice] columnist. The latest in the Lint Trap. Link in reply⬇️
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Look at all those em-dashes. Seems pretty clear Conrad used ChatGPT.
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How many rock 'n' roll songs name check Roberto Duran, Omar Khayyam, + Allen Ginsburg?. "Poetry's under pressure sealed in an aerosol can,.splattered all around on the ghetto walls- .by a skid row Omar Khayyam". Long live the King (& the Tattooed Beat Messiah).
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48 years ago today, August 16, 1977. "Elvis Died For You" . A wonderful tribute to the poetry of Presley by Zodiac Mindwarp & the Love Reaction.
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I think it went better for the U.S.A. than what I expected?.-Sanctions won't be lifted. In fact, they might be increased. -U.S.A. didn't apparently give up anything, aside from a little dignity. -What, precisely, did Putin win? A photo op? He looks worse, Russia no better off.
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RT @MatthewKeysLive: Fox News is absolutely skewering the Trump-Putin summit. The general takeaway is that Putin got the photo op he wanted….
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RT @TomDohertyfilm: A history of the Ed Sullivan Theater and some of its most memorable tenants:
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With 'The Late Show' leaving and no new occupant announced, the future of Broadway's most storied talk show stage is suddenly up in the air.
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RT @aseitzwald: An absolutely wild Maine story: An iconic lobster pound, a sibling rivalry, and a mysterious deathbed will that purported t….
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The supposed will was at the center of a years-long fight between two brothers over their father's iconic seafood business.
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I'm not sure intellectual history or political theory respects media studies enough to fully comprehend this. Tens of millions of Americans don't care about the material reality of their existence, or political science theories. they just liked the guy channeling vibes on TV.
The Trump phenomenon is more easily explainable by reference to Boorstin, McLuhan, & Debord than to Pat Buchanan, Ross Perot, or Sarah Palin. His rise + success is as grounded in spectacle + pseudo reality as it is to failures of 20 years under Clinton-Bush families presidencies.
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The Trump phenomenon is more easily explainable by reference to Boorstin, McLuhan, & Debord than to Pat Buchanan, Ross Perot, or Sarah Palin. His rise + success is as grounded in spectacle + pseudo reality as it is to failures of 20 years under Clinton-Bush families presidencies.
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. and the "black helicopter" crowd from the 1990s remains strangely silent about these black helicopters circling overhead now.
Over the past few nights we’ve had federal helicopters circling a DC neighborhood with searchlights in a performative show of force. Please note the aimless looping.
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"Gilligan's Island" wasn't simply "the most successful bad show in the history of television" (Paul Cantor, "Gilligan Unbound"). It was filled with subtle Cold War-era messages about American reslience + Democratic values.
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