All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best.

Who of us does not recognize that the life we live, however larded with brave talk about values and thought and ideals, is not actually a life dedicated to immersion in the endless torrent of images, songs, sounds and stories?

I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral politics doesn't matter any more, and that Ralph Nader was right when he said there is no difference between the two parties.

I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media.

Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.

Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent.

My business is the analytical framework.