http://www.bashfullydesigned.com/2009/03/27/poetry-friday-television/ Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:14:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.bashfullydesigned.com/2009/03/27/poetry-friday-television/comment-page-1/#comment-248 Diana Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:02:56 +0000 http://www.bashfullydesigned.com/?p=178#comment-248 Reading this poem was a Eureka moment for me. In the ongoing TV/book deathmatch, I never stopped to consider that the whole thing is really a media/media deathmatch. It seems bizarre. When we complain about one medium being passive, perhaps our alternative solution should not be another often passive medium. Maybe we should just stick with the "go outside" platitudes. At least you can be active out there. Productive even. (But then the whole problem with passive-media arguments is that they downplay our ability to participate within and produce our own media.) Reading this poem was a Eureka moment for me. In the ongoing TV/book deathmatch, I never stopped to consider that the whole thing is really a media/media deathmatch. It seems bizarre. When we complain about one medium being passive, perhaps our alternative solution should not be another often passive medium. Maybe we should just stick with the “go outside” platitudes. At least you can be active out there. Productive even. (But then the whole problem with passive-media arguments is that they downplay our ability to participate within and produce our own media.)

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