Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/03/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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