Modern media contemplated as a decaying tower of Babel. Image: detail from Pieter Brueghel the Elder’s painting of the Tower of Babel, held at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
That lede para was written in Vice-speak. I enjoyed it. The real thing would be tighter and punchier.
Truly, Shane Smith, the 46 year old hyper-competitive Canadian street newsgathering videographer pioneer who controls the Vice empire, promoted as the pre-eminent youth news site in the world, has used his McTaggert Lecture speech at the Edinburgh Television Festival to say some truly provocative stuff. What is more, it resonates horribly with the authentic cracked sound of home truths.
