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Card #c753IR // #c753Synthesis

“For most people there are only two places in the world. Where they live and their TV set. If a thing happens on television, we have every right to find it fascinating, whatever it is.”

— In our words · Source: White Noise (Don DeLillo)

[Use when]

When screen-presence is treated as a second citizenship — the event on the screen outranks the one outside the window.

[Why it matters]

Murray's shortest media theory: the TV set has become a second geography, and televised existence confers a right to fascination. If it happens on television, it is real enough to matter.

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