From: Charles Hixson (charleshixsn@earthlink.net)
Date: Thu Aug 01 2002 - 22:42:09 MDT
On Thursday 01 August 2002 21:03, spike66 wrote:
> Regular Expression wrote:
> > If more bandwidth is available to your computer, it will be able to
> > receive information (media) with greater information density. The
> > high-density media, while conveying essentially the same information
> > as its low-density equivalent, could in many cases be easier for the
> > average Internet user's brain to assimilate.
>
> Have you noticed you are too impatient to listen to
> television news any more? I have. I can read waaaay
> faster than the (admittedly attractive) anchor woman
> can talk. I can tear thru info a far greater rate than the
> old methods can dish it out. spike
But the reason that I won't listen to the TV news anymore is that I found out
that they were lying. If they ever tell the truth, I haven't been able to
detect it, though they come close at times.
Now this needs to be qualified. Most of the time I can't tell whether they
are lying or not. Only occasionally do i see a story that is later
presented. But in every such case, the TV new has been so highly processed
for entertainment value, that calling it a lie is much closer to accurate
than anything else that I could say. Calling it extremely slanted and biased
doesn't come close to a representation of what they do, though it is true in
the sense that liquid hydrogen tends to be a bit cool. But if I say that, it
sounds like a kind of understated restraint, and that's not the new at all.
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