spectacle of infotainers covering infotainers that threatens to create a fun-house wall of mirrors.

While David Salle painted triple-exposed images in a manner originated by Picabia, while Robert Longo rendered anxious 3-D versions of Rosenquist's billboard-collage, the younger infotainers, influenced by TV's radical synthesis of complement and contrast and, perhaps just as essentially, by the neither/nor, both/and condition of their native suburban landscape, pursued a radical synthesis of elements aptly described as postcollage.

But comedian Al Franken, who is known for his tongue in cheek "coverage" of recent campaigns and elections, says, "Most of us here in the media are what I consider infotainers.