George W.S. Trow(1943-2006)
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A graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard University (class of
1965), George Trow was a novelist, playwright, short story writer, and
media critic whose comments on the decline of American civilization
after the end of World War II could be summarized in one word -
"Television". He further described it as a "landscape rather like
history with the tide out." As a media critic, Trow was best known for
his 1980 essay "Within in the Context of No Context" which assessed the
context of contemporary discourse and found it wanting in style and
substance. A writer for the New Yorker magazine for almost thirty
years, he resigned in protest in 1994 when editor Tina Brown assigned
actress Roseanne Barr to edit a special edition on women.