Reflecting the Media Electric.

Just a quote today. Something to brighten your day and to remind you of the world in which we live.

"Anything that might be of interest to Slitscan. Which is to say...anything that might be of interest to Slitscan's audience. Which is best visualized as a vicious, lazy, profoundly ignorant, perpetually hungry organism craving he warm god-flesh of the anointed. Personally, I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It's covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth...no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the channels on a universal remote. Or by voting in presidential elections."

--William Gibson, Idoru

For the uninitiated: Gibson's portrayal of "Slitscan" is, roughly speaking, as a reality-TV show turned pseudo-network/media-conglomerate such that other networks' programming actually serve as little more than bumpers and tie-ins to Slitscan. Something akin to Rupert Murdoch and Ted Turner's favorite shared wet-dream, I imagine.