NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #1/NN_1993_1.iso/spool/alt/native/1573

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From: Patrick Maun <beaver.cs.washington.edu!gnosys!AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UNIVIE.AC.AT!R5321GAB>
Subject: RE: Northern Exposure
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Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 14:45:22 GMT
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Original-Sender: Patrick Maun <AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UNIVIE.AC.AT!R5321GAB>

My system doesn't support nifty reply functions, so fill in the following
with past replies. Use your imagination.  :-)


      The thing to do when faced with 13 channels ("of shit" as Pink Floyd
said), is to do something about it. Of course ignoring it is one way,
changing it is another. That is the great thing about public access TV.
It is there for the using. Make TV that makes a difference! I know I have
been confusing TV and video in my last couple of postings, but I feel that
the two are basically interexchangable. Televison is (for me at least) just
one way of presenting video.

Television is totlitarian and non-interactive (although there are many new
developments in interactive TV going on, I don't think this is something
that has an effect on our discussion though). But I think when you bring
TV "back to the people" so to say (by this I mean down scaling TV to
commuinity size, broadcasting not just entertainment, but also information
that has a *real* effect on the viewers) TV will begin to take on an inter-
active form. In other words, people will view something that affects them
and can then in turn broadcast a "reply" to this. It is all just a matter
of getting equipment to people. The same way we need to get other tools
such as the network spread around and not just locked up in schools and
the business sector.

Patrick Maun