Rant & Rave, Baby!!!
Thanks for taking time to visit my blog, whatzintellect.wordpress.com. The current theme is “Let’s Share Some Info”. I wanna know your pet peeves about the useless or relevent information we are bombared with or should be exposed to as a society through news media? So, come on and rant and rave, Baby!
Personally, I get tired of being told what is important information. Networks do this by only airing what they want to show, which is to say, what they think is important. Who gets to decide what America needs/wants to know?! Where is the meat in our local news channels? I’m sick and tired of hearing about our country blowing up with obesity, fast food chains, lawsuits against Oreos, blah, blah, blah! If I see one more camera zoom in on someone’s @$$ in a discriminatory fashion I’m going to scream!!! Check out my video Gripe Fest Video #1 for more info on this topic.
January 28, 2008 at 5:11 am
It’s a money machine right? The media runs what generates viewers, readers, listners…in short, ratings. As long as the public provides ratings, advertisers will pay and as long as advertisers pay, stockholders will make money. How to break the cycle? Get the public away from the telly and into the LIBRARY!!
One note of caution though, if you have a 401(k) or some other investment in mutual funds you’re a stockholder so if people stop watching TV…
January 28, 2008 at 10:45 pm
As a semi-professional ranter (not som much a raver these days), I love the title of this entry.
Since I’m on the soapbox for now, aren’t blogs the same source of irritation about having someone tell you what’s important. Sure it’s important to them (and maybe some close friends, etc.), but beyond an immediate circle blogs just create a clog on the infosphere. Not that I’m ranting about blogs or other online collaborative tools – I love them. I guess the problem is filtering and figuring out what’s important on an individual and collective basis. Sure my boss’s “taskers” are important to him, but where do they rank on my personal Richter Scale of importance? You do the math.
Speaking of math, have you considered or looked at the search/ranking algorithms Google (or any search engine uses)? What are their criteria for providing results? Sure there’s ways to modify and qualify these kind of “blind” searches…are the words in quotes more important? Sorry to get off my rant-box!
In the end, I suppose I’m a self-hating ranter. I hate rants…unless I’m the one doing the ranting
February 15, 2008 at 6:28 pm
Higher education institutions have been trying to get students for decades to become critical thinkers, to question controlled messages through popular media and to be able to distinguish the difference between fact and fiction, too much information or not enough of it….
The object here is not to bankrupt the entertainment business or its investors, it is to awaken the reality that the wonderful world of television and technology should always be examined and probed by the general public. In other words: you are what you eat- not saying or judging what is eaten but remembering to stay healthy while enjoying the quick fix that informational media offers (television, newspapers, magazines, internet, popular social norms).
What better way to stay “fit” than to visit the local library or search legitimate internet sites for a little additional research! After all this is the age of information!