[CAUTION: scare quotes in force] Who remembers seeing Apple's 1984 intro for the Mac? Who can't recall the ubiquitous MS Window's butterfly? Sure. There's a Janus analogy if evah. Media And Democracy Hype too tends to gloss the institutions and policies that furnish popular power. Because supply and demand for "power" is measured in First Amendment "freedoms" -- blog users and ad spend, astronominal PEs and caps. Rarely, articulated in terms of ownership -- public investment and equity in infrastructure that binds assets like fiber miles, spectrum, secure servers, and votes (capital) to the electorate.
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