I find it so ironic that after we read all about Postman's ideas of a media saturated culture, that the President of the United States went on a talk show to promote his new campaign of not increasing student loan rates.When I first saw it as a preview on Yahoo! (yes, that is where I get all my up to date news), I thought it was a joke. Why would the President be on Jimmy Fallon? Our generation is so consumed by our television shows and Facebook, that the President felt that he had to go on a talk show to get the news across. Is this really what our culture has come to? That our own President has to "slow jam" the news to us on talk shows? Personally, I find it a little pathetic. Is it so hard for us to keep updated in the news today that we expect it to come to us, instead of us going to it? We are so hard to keep interested, that the news has become even more entertaining to keep us watching. I think Postman would have had a nice laugh over this.
Read more about this at http://bpheitmeier.wordpress.com/ "Slow-Jamming Ourselves to Death?"
You have a really good point, The president of all people shouldn't have to try so hard to get people to pay attention. As responsible citizens we should be making the effort to go find what is happening in the news.
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ReplyDeleteI suspect Postman would cry rather than laugh.
ReplyDeleteI agree, I think its ridiculous the President of the United states of America has to go on Jimmy Fallon to get his news across. Shows what a lazy generation we have become.
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