[ExI] language patch

[Mike Dougherty]

On 5/29/07, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/29/07, Mike Dougherty wrote:
> > that may become one of the remaining sources of novelty as full-time
> > consumers outpace full-time producers' ability to generate (churn out)
> > "newness."

> 'newness'  ?????
> Britain's most popular TV soap opera has been running for 47 years!
> And it is still around the top of the TV ratings.
> <http://www.answers.com/topic/coronation-street>
>
> What people will accept as 'new' does not require much novelty.

Sadly, that is true and the problem is getting worse.

A 1997 Onion article covered it nicely:
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29830