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radiogurl - 2005-04-15 22:55:38
There are moments when I think technology has robbed us of our spirits. I like television and my computer, and the occasional movie; but the sad fact is that all too often, my mind goes to mush while the pictures spoon-feed me with what to think and how to feel. There's no soul behind it. It's a box that obsesses us with the most superficial of presentations. The fact that it's a two-dimensional display and a half-dimensional look at a world obscured by its cloudy lens.
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shana - 2005-04-17 13:31:16
As a broadcast journalism major looking to go into television production, I'm going to take slight offense to the above comment. Television is another median of communication. And if having a mother that teaches special education has taught me anything, it's that different people gather and understand information in different ways. Not everyone can hear a baseball game on the radio and follow what's going on. Additionally, if your brain's going to mush watching TV, it's because you're letting it. While the quality of a great deal of television programming is debateable, and, as John mentioned, we constantly have to overlook sponsorship information, there is so much to learn from watching something like baseball on TV. It makes a simple baseball game into a history lesson, a math lesson and an interactive experience. You don't have to depend on the announcer to tell you about an error, you can watch it yourself. You can visualize those historic plays, rather than just remember hearing about them. There is a lot of crap out there, but American Idol and Fox News are not enough to discount an entire form of communication.
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