[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: pooh on HDTV



I personally hope that not one cent of tax payers' $$$ goes to HDTV
development, and I sad that the feds have given all that bandwidth for it.
I personally see the whole thing as another diversion for pampered
Americans....just think about how much time and energy will go into
allowing the U.S. market to have HDTV...and this is happening when former
welfare recippiants are told well scrape a living together or else...(or
else what...just die?)  This is the ideological legacy of neoliberism in
U.S. politics and social issues. HDTV will not really give us a more
realisitic view of the world...it will just go further in distoring what
middle and upperclasses think reality really is...Life Like Images and CD
quality sound!!! Well that's just fine....too bad most of the world is
waiting to get telephone lines still. Sucks to be them hunh?! But hey,
were gonna have HDTV...but it's not even that easy. Were all going to have
to buy new TV's, and more.
I personally will chose to spend my time working towards participatory,
community media, which usually has to fight for any bandwidth at all.

Sorry to get political on the list....but these types of issues
need to be discussed I think....Jon.

===========
Jonathan Lillie
==
jlillie@email.unc.edu
==
http://www.unc.edu/~jlillie
==
(919) 969-8388
==
Graduate Student of Mass Communications
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
==
Research
http://www.unc.edu/~jlillie/research.html
==



References: