But would Western societies, including the United States, be betraying these same characteristics — obsession with celebrities (and especially their sex lives); blurring of the lines between news and entertainment; extreme self-indulgence (I am my Facebook Wall); a dearth of political principle and a surfeit of political attraction to money — without Murdoch?
"I wanted to do something that sort of allowed me to do my share to offset the dearth of opportunities that young women, and young women performing artists, had," he said.
It seems that the problem I highlighted in my last post on the dearth of tech women is actually getting worse, particularly in Silicon Valley.
I've written to the magazine before to no avail, and will likely continue to until the government-sanctioned murder of my corporeal being (and maybe my "soul" too, guess we'll see ϑ), as I've got a surplus of time on my hands and a catastrophic dearth of intelligence, hilarity and awesomeness.
I've written the magazine before to no avail, and will likely continue to until the government-sanctioned murder of my corporeal being (and maybe my "soul" too, guess we'll see ϑ), as I've got a surplus of time on my hands and a catastrophic dearth of intelligence, hilarity, and awesomeness.
After my recent BusinessWeek column on the dearth of women entrepreneurs, I was deluged with angry emails from men who disagreed with my conclusion that the problem isn't a failure on the part of women but rather a societal failure.
"There was a dearth of opportunity for my father and his father," Williams said.
I'm afraid to add up all the money I've spent in the last decade on framing for fear it's an amount that would fully explain the dearth of savings in my daughters' college funds.
As a second-generation Chinese-American growing up with a dearth of cultural familiarity, my first exposure to Beijing came as one of the perennially rotating crowd of language immersion students.
But given the dearth of shark cartilage at my local supermarket, faithfully reproducing it wasn't an option.
But more to the point, considering the dearth of other attractions outside my window right now, why consume the centerpiece?
