--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@> > wrote: > > > > I must weigh in on the side of Now being better...because it is > > Now. > > > > Also the fact that Barry can ask 1000+ people this question > > simultaneously without thinking twice about it, is a huge > > transformation from the Big Three TV channels, a local newspaper > > and wired phone service we had in the 70's. > > But with less actual information on them. > > > I often think that these days seem worse to many of us simply > > because there are no more closed doors to what we can be aware > > of, on a social, regional, national, and global basis. > > I disagree. What you have today is the "appearance" > of openness in the media, but with content that is > often fictional. The public has lost its ability to > determine truth from fiction; if it's on the six > o'clock News, the majority of them assume it's true.
However, people do have access to a wider range of sources of information and viewpoints than they used to, faster than they used to. And you really have to have been living in a cave not to be aware that media slanting is a big issue (even if you believe Fox News that *it* is the source of "fair and balanced" journalism rather than the so-called liberal media). > Things are better Now only because it's Now, not > because the world offers us more than it did in the > 70s. Which, of course, is an easy way of avoiding the question, since it would be Now no matter what the differences were between the past and the present. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
