[Publib] 1st Amendment Rights

[Doug Dawson]

A key difference between those old recordings and newspapers is the ease
of distribution. 

It used to cost a lot of money to make a recording, so people would put
a lot of time and preparation into the process. Scripts were written and
approved, orchestras rehearsed. A similar process occurred with printing
a newspaper. There was a process of editing and proofreading to ensure
all was correct before the presses rolled.

Today it is so easy to fire off a thought to a blog or Twitter or
comments section without any preparation or filter. Any reaction or
notion can be easily and immediately published*, and then exist on the
internet forever. 

A biologist recently suggested that the shift to cooking our food
radically changed the biology of human beings. I'm curious if, in a
thousand years, instant global communications will have radically
changed our intelligence.

Doug

*except of course when Twitter is down

Doug Dawson 
Manager of Web Services
Public Library Association
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Subject: RE: [Publib] 1st Amendment Rights

and as for 'forever,' I am listening at  this very moment to a radio
program that was recorded over 60 years ago. And I can read editorials
and opinion pieces in books and newspaper archives from hundreds of
years ago.