Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/03/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Kudos! to you Tina for demanding quality. That's exactly what we need to do. Turn away from the crap and demand the quality we want and/or need. And that's what the "new media" will move towards. The "interactivity" of social media is real and has an effect. Yes. As various "news organizations" attempt to figure out how to remain solvent in the fast paced change and consolidation of "networks" we see many problems. Again, the smart and intelligent will look elsewhere, deeper and wider, for the quality of information that they want and/or need to make useful decisions. Individuals like Charlie Rose, Bill Moyers, and others continue to do good work. Brave New Media and other independent groups are providing better coverage of national and international events than any "national network" ever did. One has to care enough to look at what is actually available to those of us fortunate enough to be "connected." a note off the iPad, George On Mar 29, 2015, at 1:31 PM, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote: > When I think of "dumbing down", I think of NPR. I have been so > disappointed in their news coverage lately that I even wrote to the general > manager of the Charlotte station. The new "chatty" style of delivering the > news where the newscasters all talk back and forth, joking and laughing, > reminds me of FOX. I told him that they were alienating all of their older > listeners (the ones with the money to support NPR) and advised them to use > BBC instead of FOX as role models. He actually wrote back and agreed with > me. He said everybody at the local level is upset about the changes but > they are all coming from the national level and they can't do anything > about it. He actually used to work for BBC so he knew what I meant. > > I can't stand to watch local or national news on television (there is > nothing worse than 4 or 5 people sitting on a couch and all talking at the > same time about nothing) and have depended on NPR for my news. Now I have > a Kindle set up to broadcast BBC all the time. > > Old Foggie, > > Tina > > On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 2:24 PM, George Lottermoser < > george.imagist at icloud.com> wrote: > >> I recommend caution when using catch all phrases like "dumbing down." >> >> I definitely see the the internet, and accompanying technology, making it >> easier than ever to Create; books; music; conceptual art across all >> mediums >> and and including new mediums and media. >> >> The smart and intelligent have incredible resources for researching and >> finding information on virtually any subject: health, history, literature, >> poetry, music, film, visual art of any sort, including photography. >> >> Certainly we can also point to a glut of dumb shit; but that has always >> been the case. >> >> Thanks to the internet, and many on this very list, I was able to meet >> with my urologist, for the first time, with a wide and deep knowledge of >> terminology, tests, treatments, meanings of numbers, and all of the >> procedures surrounding an Enlarged Prostate (BPH) and Prostate CA. I don't >> consider that a "coarsening and dumbing down of our culture." On the >> contrary I consider it empowering. >> >> a note off the iPad, George >> >> On Mar 29, 2015, at 2:05 AM, Peter Klein <boulanger.croissant at >> gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Thanks, George. I do wish the things I care about weren't go down the >> drain >>> quite as fast as they seem to be sometimes. But between the Internet >> making >>> it impossible to do most creative things except for free, and >>> the coarsening and general dumbing down of our culture >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > -- > Tina Manley > www.tinamanley.com > tina-manley.artistwebsites.com > http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91/Tina+Manley.html > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information