Mediation and Opinion
Much of what we see on the internet is strongly tainted with opinion. But, come on, what isn't?
Last week at church the Memorial Day sermon included a reference to Donald Rumsfeld. Not direct, but clear. Political ideas and opinions color everything, often where we do not want, or expect, them. I suppose that now days we can agree that the internet is here to stay. Text messages have been a favorite way of mine to communicate for around 5 years now. Do these things intersect? Yes.
The internet offers us access to more information than any of us have time to consume, just like the old method of choosing what paper we read or what network we watch. Now we have more outlets and more definable parameters. So what?
But will this drive us further apart?
Last week at church the Memorial Day sermon included a reference to Donald Rumsfeld. Not direct, but clear. Political ideas and opinions color everything, often where we do not want, or expect, them. I suppose that now days we can agree that the internet is here to stay. Text messages have been a favorite way of mine to communicate for around 5 years now. Do these things intersect? Yes.
The internet offers us access to more information than any of us have time to consume, just like the old method of choosing what paper we read or what network we watch. Now we have more outlets and more definable parameters. So what?
But will this drive us further apart?
1 Comments:
For sometime know there have been vast amounts of information that the public has dealt with. I would argue that we have not been drawn further apart. Most of the public doesn't digest anything but the evening news (if that) dispite the massine amounts of information we could potenially consume. Therefore, though the internet makes information more readily available, it does not make people want to seek out that information just because it is available
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