Before the backwash of "Twilesque" derivatives drowns us, it is worth figuring out what to make of this.

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Championing Disney-fied backwash is a less-than-encouraging signal for an up-and-coming chef to send.

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Asia's market turmoil, and its backwash in Latin America and Eastern Europe, have created plenty of new business opportunities.

ECONOMIST: Rating agencies

When the backwash from the Asian crisis sent Vietnam's GDP plunging from 8.2% in 1997 to 5.8% in 1998, these remittances became a vital source of stability.

CNN: Stops and Starts

My mind in their backwash, going north.

NEWYORKER: Littlefoot, 32

When, in the backwash of the 1929 Wall Street crash, his business (whose employees are all clad in chocolate-box lilac) suffers a downturn, he concocts a plot of murder and insurance fraud that launches him toward the roiling underworld from which prosperity had shielded him.

NEWYORKER: Despair

If the moral of this story is that media commentary is like navigating in fog, the crisis of journalism is, at this point, sufficiently real to be seen as part of a wider conceptual crisis brought about by new-media technology: a crisis that is located, primarily, in the cognitive effects of acceleration and its cultural backwash.

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