Ever wonder what it would be if none of the drivel being shown on television in the form of news casts, weather updates or traffic was beamed without a person being employed to read this stuff?
Its called Radio.
So it was one fine day when some marketeer came up with the idea to dress these dolts up and put a tie or skirt on them and show them to the viewers. Then there were viewers. Thus was born Television.
Not just everyday yokels but people who thought that watching these highly paid readers (with poor grammar and diction) was also entertaining. To the point that their hiring and firing and salaries and other trivia have itself become headline news.
Same with the actors in Hollywood. I mean how is what these people do, their sexual preference, their family history or their alcoholic dependencies a matter of national debate?
Does this sound like something a first world country should be doing?
On an informal mission to read one book a week as long as the eyes allow for such ambition. Fiction or non is not important as long as it entertains and /or educates. To that end the past few weeks have brought a bounty in the form of some wonderful and then not so engaging literature. Among the notables are - Non fiction category: 1. Good arguments by Bo Seo (how to handle a dispute or debate the most efficient way possible) 2. Genesis by Eric Schmidt (and former US Secy of State Henry Kissinger, who recently passed) - how AI might affect our lives as we know it 3. One in a billion - Zarna Garg (an autobiographical look at an Indian born American woman with a bindi narrated in a standup format - yes it is at times cliched but still funny) Fiction: 1. Personal by Lee Child (a vigilante story with Jack Reacher the giant, nomad protagonist of Child's novels goes hunting for a sniper) 2. Ramayana unraveled by Ami Ganatra (she might disagree about it being a work of fiction but oh wel...
If you can get news cheap, or get cheap news, get it. If not, create it, seems to be the motto.
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