New media HE SAYS Aldrin Cardon 09/13/2010

New media

HE SAYS

Aldrin Cardon

09/13/2010
I’ve lived in the years when television only come to life beginning at 7 a.m., anticipating its broadcast would be welcomed by a small nation which greets the day only at about the same time, and expire to bed at midnight, when television plays the national anthem (all few channels almost simultaneously), and then everything goes blank, to give way to just a million dots and the buzzing sound of static.

Radio was another matter. It had far reaching power than television, and its programs more economically viable that it lured audiences who were drawn to the great voices that would soon reveal their faces as stars of television, too.

But that was in another epoch, and since then, media had trudged through drastic, revolutionary changes that it could no longer stop itself, it is now awake 24/7 and the million dots and static confined only to the unoccupied wavelengths, or in a more digital sense, they are simply blue… and silent.

But the din that dwells in those images and sounds are no longer the same.

Free television competes with cable and digital networks; the Internet has become a savior and a pest; and the cheapest — if not totally free — entertainment, the radio tries to display a defiant gesture of indifference amid the invasion of other entertainment forms, like the iPod and the various China-made mp3 players, which would soon kill our music, like they did to our once insatiable desire for news and information..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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