The Attention Economy

I was a freer person before everyone became obsessed with the concept of an attention economy.

Television programming

"Man is not so religious all the time.  Even if he does all the prayers, it's only thirty minutes a day.  The rest of the time we eat, we work, we have sex, we have love.  Why would we make the station about religion, religion, religion all the time?"

-Hazem Ghorab (General Manager of Egypt 25, a channel established by members of the Muslim brotherhood, from Arab Summer by Peter Hessler, New Yorker, June 18, 2012