{"id":919,"date":"2007-06-04T21:16:47","date_gmt":"2007-06-05T02:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/2007\/06\/04\/goodness-knows-the-author-is-always-right\/"},"modified":"2007-06-04T21:16:47","modified_gmt":"2007-06-05T02:16:47","slug":"goodness-knows-the-author-is-always-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=919","title":{"rendered":"Goodness Knows the Author is Always Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About his seminal book <i>Fahrenheit 451<\/i>, Ray Bradbury now says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laweekly.com\/news\/news\/ray-bradbury-fahrenheit-451-misinterpreted\/16524\/\">it isn&#8217;t about government censorship at all<\/a>. What&#8217;s it about? How television has replaced reading.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bradbury, a man living in the creative and industrial center of reality TV and one-hour dramas, says it is, in fact, a story about how television destroys interest in reading literature.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Television gives you the dates of Napoleon, but not who he was,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Bradbury says, summarizing TV\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s content with a single word that he spits out as an epithet: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153factoids.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d He says this while sitting in a room dominated by a gigantic flat-panel television broadcasting the Fox News Channel, muted, factoids crawling across the bottom of the screen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Misty&#8217;s two-second response to this was, &#8220;He&#8217;s trying to be relevant again.&#8221; I can&#8217;t disagree with her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About his seminal book Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury now says it isn&#8217;t about government censorship at all. 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