03-21-2003, 01:15 AM
Hi,
Newspapers can be made with more pages or less, depending on how much news there is. Broadcast news must fill the time available.
Newspaper reporters can be ugly as sin. Television "news personalities" are picked largely for looks.
Newspapers can be scanned at your leisure. Television news must hold your attention at their set times.
Newspapers reach you through an intellectual process. Television is visceral.
When the first news was broadcast over a radio wave, when the first news was recorded on a newsreel, the end of news as information and the beginning of news as entertainment was decreed. There is no going back. Man's climb from the pit of ignorance was stopped ;)
--Pete
Newspapers can be made with more pages or less, depending on how much news there is. Broadcast news must fill the time available.
Newspaper reporters can be ugly as sin. Television "news personalities" are picked largely for looks.
Newspapers can be scanned at your leisure. Television news must hold your attention at their set times.
Newspapers reach you through an intellectual process. Television is visceral.
When the first news was broadcast over a radio wave, when the first news was recorded on a newsreel, the end of news as information and the beginning of news as entertainment was decreed. There is no going back. Man's climb from the pit of ignorance was stopped ;)
--Pete
How big was the aquarium in Noah's ark?