Four Stages of a Media Event

How is it that I don’t even own a tele­vi­sion and I know what the Mooninites are? (Well, I couldn’t remem­ber their names before read­ing it, but I knew what they were and where the ref­er­ence came from). I think the whole sit­u­a­tion is really an emo­tional onion. First there’s the laugh­ter when you realize …