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Threatened by extinction?
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Broadcasting and seriousness
In October, the highest paid presenter on british television and a comic famous for his obscenities, used a BBC Radio 2 show they were both on to make a phone call to a famous, but ageing actor, on the air. He was not in: they decided to speak to his answer phone.
More media, less reading
With the expansion of Internet journalism, coherence and a sense of the whole have been lost. Openness and an interest in reading serious newspapers decrease when newspapers are absorbed and reshaped on-line.
In praise of folly
Stupidity is not an unusual quality among scientists and intellectuals. However, the perception that there is no objective reality has helped to increase narrow-mindedness even more.