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Thread #121860   Message #2666267
Posted By: number 6
27-Jun-09 - 11:53 PM
Thread Name: BS: I am boycotting the MJ obit thread
Subject: RE: BS: I am boycotting the MJ obit thread
oh



but

concerning your point 1 .... isn't a website "a single centralized source, and that source is usually a mouthpiece for an individual, organization or corporate and/or governmental interests. That source pre-censors what you will hear from it. I think as websites much like t.v. stations ... with a much wider selection. And like t.v. stations much of the content is garbage.

concerning your point 2 .... you cannot deny many websites are primarily vehicles for individual, organizational, corporate advertising and government propaganda. Many websites do include advertizing and many have annoying popups. Then again, we can choose which website we goto, and with TV we also can choose the channel we watch ... even make the choice of some non-advertising channels.

All in all, the WWW is now the new TV. In fact it is now being integrated with the internet ... i.e. internet delivering your TV channels for viewing ... hell, we can now surf for our garbage websites and watch our reality t.v. shows on the same screen ... we can even watch Bill O'Rielly and Lou Dobbs and participate on their websites in polls, blogs etc.

Yup .... we are now becoming slaves beyond the realm of viewing TV (a helpless receiver) ... we are not becoming real time particpants on the slave galleys. It's becoming harder to break free and control our lives.

biLL