Before
TV and the internet evolved and became popular, people listened to the
radio to hear news, listen to music, hear shows, etc. Growing up in the 80's
and being a teenager in the early 90's I grew up using a computer for school.
At the time, internet didn't become available until like the late 90's
during the latter part of my high school years and early part of my
college years. I am not trying to be discouraging when I say this so I am
going to choose my words as carefully as I can. The evolving of the internet
has made people become more shallow. I remember when people used to have a non-shallow
point of view about things. Unfortunately, for me I happened to grow up when
computers started being popular and I noticed how the
"Hollywood" mindset started kicking into people. If you grew up like
how I grew up, for the most part people had a plain and old fashioned
mindset. What I mean by that is, people usually worked for
what they wanted and didn't always expect mom and dad to get it for them.
I'm noticing how people are becoming less appreciative and more focused on
material things and wanting the top of the line stuff just to keep up
with the Jones's. I am proud to say that I grew up watching a black and
white picture TV set for 14 years until my mom bought me a little color TV that
I had for 17 years until it blew out.
Nowadays,
I listen to the radio and check the internet to get my news, listen
to music, and watch the 70's, 80's, and 90's cartoons and TV shows that
were really good back then. I'm not trying to be discouraging but the shows
that come on nowadays is just not worth watching because of the content, the
dirty language using profanity, promoting sex, violence, etc. If I can't
see a good clean show or movie, I just rather not watch that particular show or movie because
I am a born again Christian and I have to be careful what I watch. It's been
quite some time since I watched TV. There is nothing encouraging about hearing
bad news and frankly it's nothing to broadcast because it's not good. I rather
just read it on the internet rather than hear it on TV if I'm going
to hear bad news. I've always felt comfortable listening to the radio for the
simple reason because I can tune in to a show, news, sports,
politics, and I'm not stressed from listening to the radio like I get
stressed from what I hear and see on TV. When you are in the media's
eye, you have to act a certain way, say things so that it won't be
misunderstood and get twisted around to sound like what you said was
a whole lot worse than what you really said. I am content to hear news on
my radio or surfing the internet to check out news that way. I think what
is very annoying to people when they watch the news on TV is that things
that were said is always twisted anyway. For example, a man robs a bank
and demanded that the bank teller gives him $2,500. He tells the bank teller
holding her at gunpoint that if she didn't give him the money that
he will kill her and all of the hostages in the bank. This same story can
be twisted around to be said, man robs a bank and steals $2,500 and open
fire at a bank teller critically wounding her and he tells her if she
calls the police he will kill her and all of the hostages. The point that
I am trying to make is that people will tell the same story and twist it around
to where you don't know what to believe because you heard so many versions
of the story. I think that that is probably the biggest reason
why I enjoy listening to the radio, you can catch a person in their own
lie more by the number of times they change their story. I am not the one to
discourage anyone from where they prefer to hear their news. However, I will
encourage people to tune in to the best source that they can find that is not
going to have them stressed out.
DuraBrand
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