Editorial: NBC’s Olympics and the steely grip of old media

For the last three days, a fax machine – or a bank of machines – has been calling my home phone incessantly. Unlike telemarketers, there is no one to complain to. I can’t yell at a machine. I just hear  [more...]

Is it because they’re people we don’t know? Because their culture is alien to us? Because they don’t speak the same language? Because we’re so jaded from the frequency of the events? Why do we  [more...]