[W]hat suffers in the atmosphere of immediacy is analysis. What suffers in this search for speed is depth. The media in the wealthy world are becoming increasingly simplistic, superficial, and celebrity-focused.
Interpretation
Immediacy in media prioritizes speed over deep analysis, leading to shallow content.
Laurie Garrett highlights the detrimental effects of a fast-paced, immediacy-driven media landscape on the quality of information. She argues that as media outlets rush to deliver news quickly, they sacrifice thoughtful analysis and depth, resulting in simplistic, superficial coverage that often focuses more on celebrity than substantive issues.
In practice
In a discussion about the decline of journalism, you might refer to this quote to emphasize the loss of depth in reporting.
Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
The primordial image, or archetype, is a figure--be it a daemon, a human being, or a process--that constantly recurs in the course of history and appears wherever creative fantasy is freely expressed. Essentially, therefore, it is a mythological figure. . . . In each of these images there is a little piece of human psychology and human fate, a remnant of the joys and sorrows that have been repeated countless times in our ancestral history. . . .
...she needed to confirm its presence. Like the keeper of the lighthouse and the prisoner, she regarded it as a mooring, a checkpoint, some stable visual object that assured her that the world was still there; that this was like and not a dream. That she was alive somewhere, inside, which she acknowledged to be true only because a thing she knew intimately was out there, outside of herself.
A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading.
Thinking men cannot be ruled; ambitious men do not stagnate.
Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth.
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