15 Seconds of Fame

Andy Warhol once said that everyone eventually got their 15 minutes of fame. With the ubiquity of television, the increasing pace of American society, and the short shelf life of media stories, I think he was wrong. It's more like 15 seconds of fame. Here's a few ticks of the clock for me:

Jan Shaw-Flamm, "Civil Discourse," Macalester Today, Fall 2002. Jim Ragsdale, "Drawing 'em in," Pioneer Press (St. Paul, Minnesota), Sunday, January 28, 2001, p. 3B. This is a story about Dianna Kennedy's and my research project on cartoon characterizations of Governor Jesse Ventura. Click on the above link to invoke Adobe Acrobat so that you can read the story.