Critical
Media
Theory

see also: Marshall McLuhan, Canadian teacher. Neil Postman, USA teacher.

"The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance" ― Carl Sagan, 1995, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Ponder on the WWW: how does that 1995 quote relate to Twitter and Trump?

September 9, 2014.... At the NATO summit in Wales last week, General Philip Breedlove, the military alliance’s top commander, made a bold declaration. Russia, he said, is waging “the most amazing information warfare blitzkrieg we have ever seen in the history of information warfare.”