Saturday, October 31, 2020
From cable to cable
Think modern partisans are idiotic? Think the "cable" "news" is totally preoccupied with soap opera details instead of actions? True but not new.
Searchendipity led to this peculiar 1832 publication. I was looking for calculating telegraph. This thing is titled The American Telegraph and happens to use calculating several times in the sense of scheming.
The title is unexpected since electrical telegraphs were just freshly invented in England and unknown here. The word had been coined by Chappe for his mechanical semaphore system. Presumably the word was well enough known here.
It's not about telegraphs or semaphores, it's just a weekly tabloid carrying soap opera shit against Andrew Jackson.
One screenshot:
Soap opera. Dozens of confusing characters involved in dozens of interlocking subplots. Relitigating cold cases. The same lip-smacking prurience you'll hear from MSNBC discussing Trump, or Fox discussing Biden.
Soap opera. Dozens of confusing characters involved in dozens of interlocking subplots. Relitigating cold cases. The same lip-smacking prurience you'll hear from MSNBC discussing Trump, or Fox discussing Biden.Labels: constants and constants, NOT alternate universe
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