[Publib] 1st Amendment Rights

[Dale McNeill]

There's some truth to that.  But if you read newspapers from small  
towns before the second world war, I think you'll see the similarities  
with the blogs of today.

Dale

Dale McNeill


On Aug 6, 2009, at 1:08 PM, "Doug Dawson" <ddawson at ala.org> wrote:

> 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
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> -----Original Message-----
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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.
>
>
>
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