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...much of what's on the Web is not taking advantage of the medium," he said...
...take responsibility for it." Because people want control of their own utterances, they obviously resent feeling gagged when they want to speak. What I think political correctness should be trying to do is to make people more conscious of what they say. Language, after all, is power; as a medium of communication, it can affirm or degrade the humanity of others. If someone does call me a "Chink," I can put their language through the litmus test of political correctness and recognize it as degrading. Recognizing that language can be used to strip others of their humanity, political correctness only...
...according to Van Sant, the master of suspense himself--or at least his spirit--seems to favor the project. "We had some ghostly messages before we started," Van Sant says, describing an impromptu seance with Hitchcock at a Los Angeles restaurant. "We just happened to be with a medium who channeled him at the wrong, or the right, time." And the dead auteur's response? "As I remember, the messages were very...giddy...
That does not happen very often in a frantic media age where tales of every conceivable variety and shade of veracity course constantly through the national consciousness. Because television is a medium designed for leaving impressions, not memories, the television age is one in which facts and words and truth are maddeningly elusive, in which national memories are extraordinarily shallow. Yet there remains one stubborn barrier to total amnesia. The law: ancient, ponderous, interminable, immovable. But fixedly real...
...encourage that sort of relationship, patients should follow a few important rules. First, remember that e-mail is not a perfectly private medium. If you're writing from the office, even if you use a password, your employer has the legal right to read your messages. Encryption works only if you and your doctor choose the same program, which can be tough to coordinate. So I recommend that you confine your e-mail messages to routine inquiries: appointment scheduling, follow-up questions after a checkup, requests for a prescription refill or a referral. Stanford University Medical Clinic forbids discussion...