Digital Disconnect How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy Featuring Robert McChesney [Transcript] INTRODUCTION THE TODAY SHOW (1994) BRYANT GUMBEL: Back now at 56 past. I wasn’t prepared to translate that as I was doing that little tease. That little mark with the “a” and then the ring around it? ELIZABETH VARGAS: “At”? BRYANT GUMBEL: See, that’s what I said. Katie said she thought it was “about”… KATIE COURIC: Yeah. ELIZABETH VARGAS: Oh. BRYANT GUMBEL: …But I’ve never heard it said. I’d always seen the mark, but never heard it said. And then it sounded stupid when I said it: “Violence at NBC.” There it is! “Violence at NBC GE com.” I mean, what is internet anyway? What do you write to it like mail? ROBERT MCCHESNEY: Over the course of just two decades, the internet and the devices we use to connect to it have become seamless parts of our everyday existence, radically transforming how we communicate with each another and how we receive information about the world. AUDIO MONTAGE Now, along comes the great revolution of the internet. The internet revolution. The internet revolution. Definitely this is the internet revolution. NEWS CLIP UNIDENTIFIED MALE: In the industrial revolution, if you wanted to change the world, you had to open a factory. In the internet revolution, you only need to open a laptop.
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