The Abridged Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Volumes have been written in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy and The Encyclopedia Galactica about a media outlet on a tiny blue planet on the outskirts of the Milky Way galaxy named after a woodland animal. In fact, the University of Alpha Andromedae, which exists for the sole purpose of training government bureaucrats and… read more »
CNN pioneered the genre of cable news, hence their quite simplistic name, Cable News Network. Prior to the rise of CNN, television viewers were subjected to a mere 30 minutes to one hours worth of nightly news in the evenings. This simply wouldn’t do. Why would audiences want to consume a news digest program when… read more »
In the beginning-ish, when Neanderthals first began drawing animals on the walls of caves, they were in some small measure creating the first works of journalism. They went out of the caves with their clubs, faced a treacherous world, brought home dinner, created fire and returned to their caves to report their findings to those unfortunate… read more »