Hello for anyone who may read this, and welcome to the beginning. I have been dragging my feet for some time on creating a blog and I do suppose I am a bit late to the game. But, better late than never, eh? I plan on writing from time to time about things local, and international, and perhaps just babbling on. Either way, if you care to read it, I hope you enjoy!
Regards,
Brett ~ Richmond, Va.
4 responses so far ↓
ZK // April 8, 2008 at UTC2530 |
Good to see another WHYS-er getting a blog. Look forward to reading it.
(As a random aside, I happen to have a friend in Richmond, heh. I digress.)
Will Rhodes // April 10, 2008 at UTC4930 |
Welcome to the blogosphere, Brett. I will keep dropping in every now and again – and if you have any need for any help then please feel free to message me.
Will
Hannah // April 13, 2008 at UTC1630 |
Welcome to the blogging universe… although I didn’t realise until I read your comments how many WHYS people there are online
Xie_Ming // May 10, 2008 at UTC4931 |
I see no email address for you on the your blog. Can you use this?
Another possible thread would be “Censored by WHYS”
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MIND & MEDIA
The media shape our attitudes as we sit in front on the boob tube and do not communicate with others in social organizations. Will the internet let us break out of this indoctrination?
In an article in the New Yorker, “Within the Context of No Context” (Nov. 17, 1980), G. W. S. Trow offered several insights about the action of the media in modern American society. Some of these ideas:
Counting takes the place of judgment. Only things that could be counted were important. Those things with high counts were boosted even more.
People sought a false intimacy for reassurance.
The culture acted in a childish way.
News is mostly reported without history or context for judgment.
The mass is molded by television. Most of us, including media personnel, belong to the “now generation” and have our consciousness formed by television.
If we recall how children form their worldviews, the values and reality that television conveys and establishes are undesirable.
The culture is now being transmitted via a narcissistic consumerism.
Fashion changes rapidly and with little cultural resistance.
There is a risk that a psychic void of materialist consumerism may be quickly replaced by values of a very different sort- Shar’ia, the Moral Majority, etc.
With TV, the brain loses the ability to integrate ideas- no imagination is required, music, words and image are all supplied to the passive receptor. The attention span shortens and one must jump from subject to subject- conditioned reflex takes over from thought.
The media man assumes the role of prophet and priest- something for which he is totally unqualified. But the audience welcomes him as a father figure.
How can we break out of this situation?