The right media?
Newspapers, internet blogs, television news, the list goes on. How do you choose which one to read or what internet site to frequent?
There is so many to choose from? And the biases of most are blatantly obvious. Do you choose to go with the most neutral one or the one that is the most local? Or maybe you are one that only believes religiously in the wall street journal or possibly maybe only one particular columnist and read nothing but his/her articles.
I personally have a friend thats obsessed with Ann Coultier and her extreme conservative views, so I can see how that happens.
And on the other side I have people I can think of right now that I believe absolutely know NOTHING about anything and I avoid their articles like the plague. Either way, what media is the right media and how do you choose?
I personally choose whoever is the most awesome and positive person... I am not into the negative side of things or life for that matter. Just pure awesomeness! Seek it out and find it wherever you can...
Posted in: media, newspaper, radio, television on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 at at 10:05 AM
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Ann Coulter? Extreme? Her columns and books are powerful, profound and accurate -- all written with a twinkle in her eye. She causes the Left to go into fits that would make a 2-year-old proud. She hopes that she will get rated as the worst all-time columnist in history, because it will mean she was one of the best.
Anyhow, everything that is written needs to be interpreted and digested. We can't sit and drink the Koolaid that the media wants to pour down our throats. The more channels of communication we have, the better. It's a free-marketplace of ideas, and no one should be "married" to any one source of information. No longer are we bound up by the dogma given forth by CBS, ABC, and NBC. We now have Fox News, CSPAN, the blogosphere, talk radio, and other ways of being heard. Communication doesn't need to be "top-down", as the New Media dethrowns previous communication as we know it.
We've sailed into a bold new era of communication - bringing an explosion of technologies which bridge people around the world, as never before. And as our appetite for information and knowledge continues to grow, the world continues to shrink (or flatten, as Thomas Friedman hypothesizes).
You raise a good point - how do we choose what we choose? Why? What's relevant, and what isn't? Everything has it's bias, so is there anything that truly isn't biased? Every story has an angle.
A new communication super-network has been built before our eyes. Our planet glows with billions-upon-billions of interactions traveling at the speed of light. Will this seemingly infinite number of communications become a flood of electronic babble? How do we use this to usher in a new era of understanding and cooperation?