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I did get the book that I asked for. I did get it quickly. But there is so much highlighting in it, it is almost unreadable. It was considered "good" used, but (since I can tell from the 4 markings from libraries and other colleges)it is "over used".
This is a great introduction to media studies. It generally covers a lot of theories and their originators. It does not go into a great deal of depth on any one of them, however, this book is great to get ideas for a theory that one might wish to expand on in detail. I have used this many times for short papers in which I want to incorporate an idea, but do not want the hassle of a lot of in depth research on topic.
I have this book for a class. It discusses some very interesting topics. I highly recommend it.
However human nature is strange in that one often ends up hurting the most those that they actually love dearly. It was something as simple and pure as seeing the truth in the different ways of life chosen by different human beings who lived on this land even if he did not agree with all viewpoints. And therein lies the genesis of everlasting love as well, no matter how much doubt is cast by slander. That is true at so many levels, both at an individual and personal level but also in terms of the relationship between the citizens of this world and the media. Unquestionably, the strength and courage shown by the modern day media has been the sole driving force in bringing forward the various viewpoints that would eventually change the world for better. That is the essence of life. He was such a person who could see the truth in every perspective and ideology and at the same time felt that the modern world would be writing its epitaph if it did not bravely face the reality of the every changing world. After all he was just a human being.
It is analogous to the different faces of a diamond and that it would take a miracle to be able to see these myriad, if not infinite, faces of the same diamond in one glimpse. There once was an ordinary man who sat in his home looking at his television screen, as if looking through it and asked for forgiveness and hoped that one day he would be forgiven by everyone he hurt. It is like the words - "It sometimes takes a stranger for us to be able to look into justices' beautiful eyes". It is like being able to walk in every stranger's shoes and realizing that in essence some face of the ultimate truth shows itself no matter how different this truth looks at face value. Words, in that context, are also strange since they can be sometimes be so vitriolic, if not being utterly cruel. It was at times like this that he wished he could get himself to walk away from the television and return to his ordinary world of man and machines or even to his essence, not out of fear of retaliation but out of the pain he kept causing others. In this regard, the narrower the tunnel vision, the more mistrust there is against other viewpoints. Well, what can you say other than - "shine on you crazy diamond."
Complete moral degredation of society, eh. Dimwit zealots interspersed with egotistical invaders of privacy and the silly immature masses of disgusting protoplasm seeking fun at others' expense, all trapped in the tragic duplicity and hypocrisy of their own self-glorified beliefs.the self-proclaimed intellectual class, the so-called saviors of modern society. Has the rabid journalistic and entertainment and advertising (aka the modern day devils) media gone berserk with no one around to save them from their mental illness except maybe their own slow but inevitable slide down into oblivion.
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