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251 NoTeS introduction 1 Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438 (1928). 2 Deck the Halls, directed by John Whitesell (20th Century Fox, 2006). 3 A Charlie Brown Christmas, directed by Bill Melendez (Lee Mendelson Film Productions, 1965). 4 Dewayne Ingram, “Basic Principles of Landscape Design” (Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, 1991), http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ MG6086 (accessed December 15, 2008). 5 “Design Guide for Interiors,” Publication No. DG 1110-3-122 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1997). 6 “Design Guide,” 4.6. 7 Kirk Johnson, “Principles of Design: Scale,” Suite 101.com, 2005, http://www .suite101.com/article.cfm/gardeirkn_design/115656 (accessed December 15, 2008). 8 Andre Bondi, “Characteristics of Scalability and Their Impact on Performance,” in Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Software and Performance (Ottawa, Ont., 2000), 195–203. 9 “Xerox,” television advertisement, directed by Paul Jervis, 2004–2006, http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVb6VxG8rLk&playnext=1&videos=wSbj7yI3 RYc (accessed August 17, 2010). 10 Joshua Meyrowitz, No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985), 5. 11 Meyrowitz, No Sense of Place, 4. 12 Meyrowitz, No Sense of Place, 5. 13 Meyrowitz, No Sense of Place, 6. 14 Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (New York: Anchor, 1959). 15 Meyrowitz, No Sense of Place, 31. 252 — NoTeS To pp. 7–21 — 16 Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (New York: Penguin, 1986), 92. 17 Meyrowitz, No Sense of Place, 31. 18 Ernest A. Hakanen, personal conversation with author, June 2009. 19 Jake Tracer, “‘Potter’ Fans Finally Get to Start Reading,” Wilmington News Journal , July 16, 2005, A1. 20 Eric Hoffer, The True Believer (New York: Harper & Row, 1951). 21 It’s a Wonderful Life, directed by Frank Capra (Liberty Films, 1946). 22 Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438 (1928). 23 Philippa Strum, Brandeis: Beyond Progressivism (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 135). 24 Quoted in Strum, Brandeis, 135. 25 Louis Brandeis, dissenting opinion to Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438 (1928). 26 Hoffer, True Believer, 24. chapter 1 1 Kim Painter, “Multi-Baby Boomers; Risks and Costs Increase with Number of Fetuses,” USA Today, November 10, 1997, 1A. 2 “National Vital Statistics Report” (Atlanta: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2005), 25. 3 Stephanie Saul, “Birth of Octuplets Puts Focus on Fertility Clinics,” The New York Times, February 11, 2009, A1. 4 John Nichols and Robert McChesney, “The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers,” The Nation, April 6, 2009, 13. 5 Nick Davies, Flat Earth News (London: Chatto & Windus, 2008), 56–59. 6 Davies, Flat Earth, 59. 7 Davies, Flat Earth, 60. 8 Jamison Foser, “You Can Highlight the Controversy,” Media Matters for America , September 1, 2006, http://www.mediamatters.org (accessed September 2, 2006). 9 See, e.g., Eric Boehlert, Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush (New York: Free Press, 2006); and Frank Rich, The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina (New York: Penguin, 2006). 10 Samuel Winch, Mapping the Cultural Space of Journalism: How Journalists Distinguish News from Entertainment (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1997). 11 Nichols and McChesney, “Death and Life,” 14. 12 Thomas Gieryn, Cultural Boundaries of Science (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999). 13 Nichols and McChesney, “Death and Life,” 14. 14 S. Elizabeth Bird, For Enquiring Minds: A Cultural Study of Supermarket Tabloids (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1992), 91. 15 Liz Robbins, “Questions over Octuplets Multiply,” The Lede (The New York Times blog), February 3, 2009, http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/03/ questions-over-octuplets-multiply/#more-2153 (accessed March 13, 2009). 16 Harris Faulkner (host), Happening Now (Fox News Network, February 2, 2009), http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF6PNWNEACI (accessed March 23, 2009). — NoTeS To pp. 21–30 — 253 17 “Nadya Suleman Pregnancy Photos,” February 12, 2009, http://www.youtube .com/watch?v=peN1UnneAQg&feature=related (accessed March 23, 2009). 18 Chris Ayres, “Octuplets Mother Nadya Suleman: I’ll Stop My Life for Them,” Times of London, February 7, 2009, http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/ world/us_and_americas/article5679572.ece (accessed March 24, 2009). 19 Sonya Charles, “Mothers in the Media: Blamed and Celebrated—An Examination of Drug Abuse and Multiple Births,” Pediatric Nursing 28 (2002): 142–45, 142, www.findarticles...