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Sep 12 2009

The News Today

Posted by Dan Gillmor in Principles

The context was very different, but the words of Shakespeare in Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 5, foretold what mainstream news in America has become: mediastorms of tales told by idiots, full sound and fury, signifying nothing.


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