"A balanced yet biting critique .
He shows how all media, all the time fuels celebrity worship, paranoia, and irony, and how attempts to ward off the onrush become occasion.
Gitlin is a savvy guide to our increasingly kinetic times."-- San Francisco Chronicle In this original look at our electronically glutted, speed-addicted world, Todd Gitlin evokes a reality of relentless sensation, instant transition, and nonstop stimulus, which he argues is anything but progress. . . "A balanced yet biting critique