Toiling as an undergraduate in mass media studies, I fell across a book that was not on the syllabus called The Electric Fire (that so far, I am unable to find online in any configuration) that suggested the moving images on our television (and by extension, here in 2025, our computer monitor) screens are processed by the left hemisphere of the brain, where most of our dreaming and day-dreaming happens.
I'll be the first to concede that today's television, especially news, public affairs, and commentary programs, are primarily well-dressed white people whom we'll never meet pontificating, proselytizing, or preaching, usually at the top of their lungs, imparting little to no information.
Watch a news program (regardless of channel) with someone else and at the end of a half-hour ask them what the lead, or first, story was about. Less than ten percent will be able to recall. That old left hemisphere voodoo that you do so well, right?
But there are smiles along the way. Somewhat.
C'mon! From a distance, a smile and a grimace look nearly the same.
-bill kenny
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