The Information Diet

Testimony by Leland Swenson, president of the U.S. National Farmers’ Union, before the House Judiciary Committee, September 12, 2000.

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http://www.weather.gov/om/hazstats.shtml

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http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs310/en/index2.html

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http://www.worlddiabetesfoundation.org/composite-976.htm

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http://www.afb.org/mylife/book.asp?ch=P1Ch4

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http://www.accessexcellence.org/BF/bf02/klein/bf02e3.php

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It’s important to note, in the context of power’s relationship to information, that reading and writing quickly became trade secrets belonging to this set of professionals. Women were quickly excluded. Lower-class citizens needn’t apply.

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Barry J. Kemp. Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization. Routledge: 2006.

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M. Lichtheim. Ancient Egyptian Literature (p. 104). The University of California Press: 1980, vol. 3.

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http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2011/07/11/women-and-children-first-technology-and-moral-panic/

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http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking-the-unthinkable/

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/22/magazine/the-twitter-trap.html

21

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/6868/

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Carr, Nicholas. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (p. 16). W.W. Norton & Company: 2010. Kindle Edition.

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http://books.google.com/books?id=z5MelCA-zzIC&pg=PA85&lpg=PA85&dq=As+long+as +the+centuries+continue+to+unfold,+the+number+of+#v=onepage&q=As%20long%20as%20the %20centuries%20continue%20to%20unfold%2C%20the%20number%20of&f=false

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http://www.lowcarb.ca/corpulence/corpulence_full.html

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http://gawker.com/5814150/roger-ailes-secret-nixon+era-blueprint-for-fox-news

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http://gawkernet.com/ailesfiles/ailes2.html

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/business/media/10ailes.html

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http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/roger-ailes-quotes-5072437#ixzz1VJICt1q4

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http://stateofthemedia.org/2011/cable-essay/

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This analysis comes from the excellent Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism State of the News Media reports, 2004–2001. http://stateofthemedia.org/previous-reports/

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http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/category/ratings