Not a waste after all.
So apparently Mass Media isn’t that big a waste of time after 
all, I guess she is teaching us something in there. For example, we were informed last week by way of video that newspapers have changed dramatically in the last decades, those that have survived. According to this video the reason that newspapers have added big, splashy color picture, more advertising and shorter articles is because of T.V. news. The news we see on tv only shows us the bloodiest stuff, and compacts all of our news into brief to the point statements with little or no details. So this got me to thinking in class today (dont really remember what she was talking about) does this apply to blogs to. For example is a post that is short, sweet and contains really nothing special, no in depth views or opinions more likely to get comments and be read than the longer, more though out posts? And if people do tend to comment more on posts that have, well, less to say what does that say about us? Does that mean that we’ve succumb to the networks media, are we addicted to blood, gore, disaster and tragedy? Think about it, when you see a post that is a bit long winded, what do you do, gloss over it, move on? How many of you actually read those long posts?
I read long posts! That depends on the subject of course.
People are busier these days. Life is getting faster, so we tend to sieve things out. Some things should be made concise.
Comment by Jess — September 27, 2005 @ 10:32 am