Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/03/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jim, Sounds like our local "paper" - mostly local scandals, obits and multi-page ragweed medicine ads (OK, some of the scandals are pretty good). I read NYT, Washington Post and Spiegel and get my news fix there. And except for the Sunday NYT those are online. As George notes there is no shortage of dumb. We like TV for ball games and reruns of "Taxi", but I would have be sedated to sit through any of the news programs. For my photography hobby, the internet is a gold mine. Ken On 3/29/2015 1:32 PM, Jim Nichols wrote: > George, you make a very good point. I can't speak for Peter's paper, > but our local, 3 days a week, paper today was about 20% news and 80% > advertising. Very little of value to me except for the obits, where I > keep up to date on the passing of acquaintances. If I need > information, it is but a search away on the internet. And, like you, > I am not reluctant to use it. > > Jim Nichols > Tullahoma, TN USA > > On 3/29/2015 1:24 PM, George Lottermoser 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information