In the digital age, condemning the medium is often shorthand for condemning not only the message but the messenger – and their right to speak.
“The medium is the message,” Marshall McLuhan famously said. “Twitter is a poisonous well of bad faith and viciousness”, tweeted Nation columnist Katha Pollitt in a typical blanket condemnation. Outlets like The Atlantic regularly run pieces like “Is Google making us stupid?” or “Is Facebook making us lonely?” (It is not). Keller’s aversion to social media is common among media’s old guard, who believe it has eroded standards of ethics and behaviour.
He blamed his critics for using Twitter: “A medium encourages reflexes rather than reflection.” When Keller was pressed by the Times’ public editor to explain himself, he did not apologise for hurting Adams or for using column space to defend his wife’s ill-begotten ideas. In Keller’s world, mere mortals should not deign to tweet about their mere mortality. But these were different than Adams’s Twitter account: they were sanctioned by Keller for print consumption. Under Bill Keller’s tenure, numerous Times contributors penned articles about their own struggles. He accused her of “raising false hopes” for other cancer patients, and compared her active online presence unfavorably to his “father-in-law’s calm death”. On January 12, Bill Keller, husband of Emma Keller and the former executive editor of the New York Times, wrote his own column chastising Adams for not dying more quietly.
Why had Keller not simply stopped reading the Twitter account, instead of belittling an ailing stranger? Why would The Guardian sanction a column attacking a cancer-stricken mother of three? Guardian readers questioned the cruelty of believing the worst thing about pain was that it is too consistently expressed. Keller’s column inspired outrage among the thousands of people following Adams’ Twitter account, many of them cancer patients who find solace in Adams’ words. Should there be boundaries in this kind of experience? Is there such a thing as TMI?” “I couldn’t stop reading – I even set up a dedicated column in Tweetdeck – but I felt embarrassed at my voyeurism. “As her condition declined, her tweets amped up both in frequency and intensity,” complained Keller. Adams has stage IV breast cancer, and Keller was annoyed. "Is there a point to this madness and all that he was.On January 8, 2014, Emma Keller, a journalist for The Guardian, wrote a column about a woman named Lisa Bonchek Adams.What song is this? "Time takes us all so why am I not just living for today?".Lights out, I can't stand to hear you scream.If your lungs are still working it must be the mud.If your heart's still beating it must be the blood.The Back of Your Mouth, All That I've Got, Pretty Handsome Awkward, Cut Up Angels.All That I've Got ,Listening ,Cut Up Angels, Into My Web.Cut Up Angels, Pretty Handsome Awkward, All That I've Got, The Back of Your Mouth.Poetic Tragedy, Pretty Handsome Awkward, The Best Of Me, Listening.Can you name the other songs that I mentioned in the last question in order?.If we cut out the bad well then we'd have nothing left.Which of these lyrics is from Cut Up Angels?.This fragile cliche of my broken heart attack.If you feel like dying you might wanna sing.Which of these lyrics is not from Let It Bleed?.What song is this?:"Better off on your own you said, and I've seen that look in your eye.
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