Television news can profoundly disconnect us from what's actually going on around us

Sometimes the news media are profoundly, even dangerously, out of touch with real life

Today's media generate an enveloping--and ultimately isolating--illusion of connectedness

Media-style "authority" has more to do with popular acceptance than with proof

Making an idea's authority coequal to popular acceptance is an invitation down the path to back to more primitive belief systems

"Virtual Society?"

"The Dissociative Society"