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I know a lot of people in the retirement village that I have a house in in Florida that are on the Internet and are reading the paper on the Internet, and they're communicating on the Internet.
The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at that time among those people.
M. Russell Ballard, Clergyman (1928) |
Rona Barrett, Journalist (1936) |
Nick Cannon, Musician (1980) |
Lord Caradon, Diplomat (1907) |
David Carradine, Actor (1936) |
Matt Damon, Actor (1970) |
William Allen Egan, Politician (1914) |
Jim Elliot, Clergyman (1927) |
John W. Gardner, Educator (1912) |
Gus Hall, Businessman (1910) |
Vittorio Alfieri, Dramatist (1803) |
Jacques Derrida, Philosopher (2004) |
Henry Fielding, Novelist (1754) |
John Hancock, Politician (1793) |
Gus Kahn, (1941) |
Fernando Lamas, Actor (1982) |