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March 07, 2006

Facts as commodities

Today on CNN, the three people on screen during the business segment went from triviality to triviality, including a long discussion of a site that transposes financial news into musical notes. Meanwhile, underneath them the facts and stories crawled at slow-reading speed.

This is the commoditization of facts at work. [Tags: facts media cnn EverythingIsMiscellaneous everything is miscellaneous]

Posted by D. Weinberger at March 7, 2006 10:32 AM

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