"Uh-oh. Maxine goes home and pops on CNN. And there it all is. Bad turns to worse. All day long." (Bleeding Edge, p. 316) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilPyHd2nKMc This is Daniele Ganser's lecture from 2011, -- one of the the more coherent presentations of the overall phenomenon. - Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l