NP>Lewis Lapham being simply wrong. Discuss

[Mark Kohut]

Whether presented as entertainment or news, the spectacle of disaster seen
from a safe distance demands nothing from the eye of the beholder other
than the duty of ritual observance. Words in print require the active
presence of a reader’s imagination. The camera does not: like the moon
acting upon the movement of the tides, it calls forth collective surges of
emotion that rise and fall with as little apparent meaning as the surf
breaking on the beach at Santa Monica. Consciousness becomes pattern
recognition rather than the forming of a thought, the networking of
brands—many hundreds of them in the course of an afternoon’s shopping and
an evening’s programming—all we know or need to know."
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