August 2006

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YouTube – Lewis Black Demands CNN Remove banner from screen

Why do I keep reading about media and media literacy when it is happening all around me?  Here’s a segment from CNN with Lewis Black in which he complains about the crawl at the bottom of the screen.  It’s distracting, he says, from the people talking.  But part of the new media is having multiple things going on at once.  Is it distracting?  Or is it more a commentary on the people talking…that what they are saying is mostly just sound-bitey pieces, already scripted…after all, Black was there selling his book.

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