How Max Headroom Predicted the Demise of TV Journalism

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Pity Max Headroom. We think of him today as an empty-headed relic of the 1980s—if we think of him at all.

Two decades later, right around the time that future is supposed to be happening, Max Headroom is getting a DVD release, and maybe Max will get his due.

Turns out he sold us more than sugar water. “I’m an image whose time has come,” he told us back then, and he wasn’t kidding.

Max was the forehead of today’s mass punditocracy, presaging Glenn Beck, Keith Olbermann, and the rest of today’s flesh-and-blood bloviators.

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