Humanity’s new sense of claustrophobia, wrought by the closing of distance, which was in turn wrought by technology, was in and of itself intensifying the magnitude of each crisis as it was perceived. The hot medium of digital-video communications drove us into emotional, philosophical, and ideological silos much more than did the cool, gray medium of print-and-typewriter journalism. Journalists shoved their opinions in our faces in a way that was harder to do with the old technology. They were participants, taking sides in a way they never used to do, which only served to further intensify
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