Now that so many of us get our news delivered to us online through blogs, rss feeds, Twitter, and a whole range of other less-mediated mediums, we really are living in Henry Luce’s century old world where we thirst for news but are drowning in information.
The effective boundlessness of the…
Bill Keller on magazine man Henry Luce:
“Whatever else you think of Luce, he never dived down-market. Whenever his publications flagged, Luce insisted that the way to invigorate them was to make them better, not dumber, more populist, more sensational or more cynical. His objective was never just the expansion of his audience or the demolition of his rivals, but the advancement of what he saw as the greatness of his nation.”
(NYT Book Review)
