The medium of TV strikes me as the doggerels of old--it is useful water-cooler conversation endowed with powers of satire, irony, and pathos but without the supporting foundation of print literacy, it would be fruitless flummery. Think about all the poems and songs and tidbits of verse thrown around ye village wells, rivers, saloons, markets, etc.--they built and destroyed political dynasties!
But the information provided by newspapers, magazines, books, and other forms of print media supports this new doggerel, the TV visual image. Words lasso abstract ideas and make them communicable; visual images expand those ideas exponentially, into the recesses that language alone almost cannot reach...
[to be continued--class dismissed]
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